Lebanese cooking is a celebration of contrast: bright herbs and warm spices, crisp salads and slow-simmered stews, tangy sauces and deeply savory meats. These Lebanese recipes — drawn from home ...

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“Rose Water & Orange Blossoms” (Running Press, $30), the debut cookbook by Maureen Abood, evokes both her Lebanese-American heritage and her life as a cook, writer, photographer and blogger in ...

Growing up, I never knew I was eating raw meat. Or maybe it was just that I didn't think "raw" was something worth noting. I simply knew that kibbeh nayeh was incredibly good. And so I was stunned by ...

When an enormous explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Aug. 4, it didn’t take the Mobarak siblings — Gibran, 19; Anais, 17; and Diego, 13 — long to act. By that Saturday, they’d launched ...

Nestled in the Levant and on the Eastern Mediterranean, Lebanon offers a rich and aromatic cuisine emphasizing nutritious, locally sourced ingredients, from olive oil and garlic to legumes, grains, ...

Photo by Amy Phelps Shwarma Djej served with black bean hummus. My picky eater, for reasons known only to her, has a list of foods she hates like tomatoes and ketchup, and freaks out if she can see a ...

This year marks the 20th annual St. Elias Lebanese Food & Cultural Festival in Birmingham. Dates are April 13-14 at St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church, 836 Eighth St. South, and the event runs 10 a.m.

Growing up, I never knew I was eating raw meat. Or maybe it was just that I didn't think "raw" was something worth noting. I simply knew that kibbeh nayeh was incredibly good. And so I was stunned by ...