Monthly Archives: September 2010

Lebanese granola

Tweet It is a fact that American food products have become so prevalent  in Lebanon that one can find the same boxes of cereals, cake mixes and jello as in the US. The shelves of the  supermarket near my apartment in Beirut are  filled with every  cereal imaginable. Lebanese don’t like to feel left out, [...]
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Fattet Hummus

Tweet This is a traditional dish and I believe it is specific to the Sunni communities in Beirut. While living in California, I became friends with  a Lebanese man. He and I  worked in the same building. His relatives threw a dinner party and invited me. This is the dish I remembered from dozens on [...]
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Chocolate bars (or tarte)

Tweet If there is one habit I have remained faithful to my entire life, it is that of eating chocolate. Every single day. The only thing that has changed is the type of chocolate. So when I saw a one-pound bar of Callebaut here at the local supermarket in Beirut, it was  a no-brainer. Out [...]
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