Category Archives: beans

Lamb shank and bean soup (Shorbet mawzate w fassoulia)

One of my pet peeves is this: I go out to eat at a “nice” restaurant, I order soup, I taste the soup, it tastes CANNED. AAAAh!!!! Am I nuts or do other people feel as annoyed as I do? Soup is so important! I mean, anybody can throw a piece of meat on a grill [...]
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The Hacker Dish (Makhlouta)

Someone tweeted yet another article that was published in  the New York Times about food in Beirut (with a quote from Kamal Mouzawak on tapas versus mezze). I see hackers and farmers having a lot in common: both work hard, long hours in solitude. Both reap virtually no recognition or kudos. Both need a healthy, stick-to-the-ribs [...]
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Lupini beans (Termos)

This was a favorite snack growing up; we’d buy it from the cart vendors in the street  and  munch on them , leaving the skin aside. Apparently these beans were favored by the Romans and since we had to contend with the Romans for a few centuries, that would explain why we are still eating [...]
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