Category Archives: drink

Sage tea (Meramyeh)

Drinking herbal teas is very much part of the Lebanese culinary mores and traditionally  herbs were dried and kept in the pantry for such a purpose. I found stacks and stacks of large bags filled with dried mint, sage, camomile, flower petals imported from Lebanon or Jordan or Syria, and sold at the Mid-Eastern store. [...]
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Mulberry leaves tea (Toot chai)

Most people who have a general knowledge of the Middle-East will tell you that the reason that Lebanese people speak French is due to the fact that France had a mandate on Lebanon for a few decades. Wrong. The reason that France had such an influence on Lebanon was primarily economic. How? Lebanon had since [...]
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Pomegranate drink with pine nuts and rose water

How would you get around a city if the streets had no signs? If nobody paid any attention to turn signals or traffic lights? I am getting used to rolling down my window and stretching my left arm when I want to turn left. The one advice I keep hearing is” Be bold, this is [...]
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