Monthly Archives: April 2010

Frog legs with garlic and cilantro

Tweet Yesterday, I had a vision of my grandmother and I sitting down in her favorite hotel in Chtaura, a town in the Bekaa Valley, eating frog legs with garlic and cilantro. I wanted to relive that moment; what better way than  to find some frog legs and prepare them? In Beirut, one can go [...]
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Eggplant dip (Baba Ghannouj)

Tweet I attended a French high school in Lebanon, Lycée Franco-Libanais and in France as well. Literature was an important portion of the curriculum and we studied all the French authors, from Rabelais to Molière (every single play) to Balzac and Zola and Flaubert; we did’n't bother with Shakespeare. However, we did touch on the [...]
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Carrot and fresh almonds salad

Tweet Have you ever had fresh almonds? They are super crunchy and inside, the nut is soft and moist. We used to eat them doused in salt as a snack  out of school, buying  paper cone bags  from cart vendors. The middle-eastern store is displaying mounds of these fresh almonds; Chef Marlene Mattar incorporated them [...]
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