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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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Turkish coffee

I have a 17-year old daughter who was born and raised in the US;  she does not like to cook, and can hardly be found in the kitchen, except to heat up some frozen boxes of food. All of this changed when she and Tony, a Lebanese young man she met in childhood, became an [...]
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Mint-Lemonade

There is a café in the chic ABC mall in Beirut called Casper and Gambini; this is where I tried this mint-lemonade for the first time on a hot sweltering day. It came in semi-frozen form like a margarita and the combined taste of fresh mint and fresh lemons was so cool and tangy and [...]
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