Monthly Archives: February 2010

Lobster and shrimp soup

In the late nineties, Andrea Bocelli came to Lebanon to perform in Beit Eddine, a historic palace in the Shouf mountains. My dad, who never missed a concert with opera in it, invited us to join him.  I was stunned to hear the audience, composed mainly of twenty  year-olds, singing along  in Italian, at the [...]
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Strawberry tarts in a jiffy

Let’s face it: All of us foodies like to make things from scratch, believing strongly that this is the only way that food will taste its best. No argument there. However, there are times when this is just not possible. Life gets in the way; appointments, traffic, bad plumbing, cat had a accident in the living [...]
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Cookbook Giveaway

I have started to put the wheels in motion as I plan my relocation to Beirut this summer; luckily, I have a friend who owns a shipping company and who is advising me on all the documentation required and so on; he advised me to forego trying to ship books or DVDs. Now I have [...]
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