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Fattoush Lebanese Salad: Fresh Vegetables and Crispy Pita
This iconic Lebanese salad transforms leftover pita bread into crispy shards that crown bright vegetables and tangy sumac dressing.
May 17, 2024
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Chickpea Tuna Salad: Hearty, Plant-Based Texture
Mashed chickpeas replace fish in this quick, protein-packed salad. Tangy, crunchy, and ready in under 10 minutes for lunch.
Jan 12, 2024
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Authentic Lebanese Tabbouleh: Parsley Salad Proper
The real Lebanese tabbouleh is parsley, not bulgur. Learn the hand-chopping technique and why resting time makes this salad sing.
Jan 10, 2024
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Panzanella Is a Salad Built to Use Up Stale Bread, and the Tomatoes Came Later
The Tuscan bread salad predates the tomato in Italian kitchens; the original was bread, onion, oil and vinegar. The version everyone now makes adds ripe tomatoes and cucumber, and the argument is whether to soak the bread or toast it. Both, done right.
Sep 6, 2026
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Buckwheat Tabbouleh: The Bulgur Swap That Does Not Taste Like a Compromise
Tabbouleh is a parsley salad with a little grain in it, not the other way round. That makes it one of the easiest Levantine dishes to take gluten free, provided you pick the right grain.
Aug 11, 2026
Travel
Where to Eat Vegan in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Jeddah
Cold-pressed juice bars, Armenian-Lebanese plant plates, and a vegan bakery in Ar Rawdah: how Riyadh and Jeddah are building a real vegan dining map.
Oct 2, 2025
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Cold Tahini Soba Noodles With Date Syrup and Chilli Crisp
Japanese buckwheat noodles dressed with a Levantine sesame sauce. The two sesame pastes are near relatives, and date syrup does the job mirin was already doing.
Aug 4, 2026
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Gazpacho Andaluz: Bread, Oil, Vinegar and Garlic Were the Soup Before the Tomato Arrived, and They Still Are
The cold soup of southern Spain is an emulsion, not a blended salad. The bread and oil give it body, the sherry vinegar gives it its edge, and the tomatoes have to be the best of the year. A recipe for the heat, and the two cousins worth knowing.
Sep 6, 2026
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Vegetarian Middle Eastern Cooking Is Not a Compromise
Most of the Levantine repertoire was already meatless, because meat was expensive and fasting traditions are old. These are dishes designed to be eaten without meat, not adapted to be.
Aug 14, 2026
Travel
Plant-Based Dining Across the Smaller Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman
A vegan bakery in Janabiyah, a Four Seasons tasting menu backed by a Saudi prince, and Muscat's coconut-bowl breakfast spot: the region's quieter vegan scene.
May 27, 2026
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Fatteh Batinjan: Stale Bread, Fried Aubergine, Garlic Yogurt
A dish built to use up yesterday's bread, assembled in layers while everything is still hot so half the bread softens and half stays crisp. Timing is the whole technique.
Aug 15, 2026
Nutrition
You Do Not Have to Give Up Rice. You Do Have to Change Which One, How Much, and What Is On It
Telling a household built around rice to stop eating rice is advice that gets nodded at and ignored. Four changes to the same plate do more for post-meal glucose than an instruction nobody will follow.
Aug 8, 2026
Travel
Beirut and Lebanon's Vegan and Plant-Forward Tables
Centuries of fasting cuisine gave Lebanon a plant-based head start. Here is where that history shows up on menus across Beirut today.
Mar 5, 2026
Travel
Qatar's Plant-Based Dining Scene: Where to Eat Vegan in Doha
From a museum-attached vegan kitchen to a Pearl Qatar juice bar chain, Doha's plant-based restaurants are small in number but sharp in ambition.
Dec 18, 2025
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Lamb Kabsa: Saudi Arabia's Fragrant Rice and Meat Classic
Saudi Arabia's national dish combines tender lamb with fragrant basmati rice and a warm spice blend. Toasted nuts and raisins add sweetness and crunch to this show-stopping one-pot meal.
Nov 22, 2023
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Ten Middle Eastern Dishes You Can Actually Cook on a Weeknight
No special equipment, no two-day marinades, no ingredients you have to travel for. Ten dishes that are genuinely quick, ordered by how little you have to do.
Aug 14, 2026
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Black Bean Sweet Potato Chili: Hearty, One-Pot
A warming chili where sweet potato and black beans do all the work. Spiced simply, it feeds a crowd and freezes beautifully.
Apr 20, 2025
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Chicken Shawarma: Oven-Roasted Spiced Chicken at Home
Without the rotating spit, home cooks still achieve restaurant-quality shawarma through high-heat roasting and a broil finish. Marinated, caramelized, and sliceable, it's worthy of your best pita.
Apr 20, 2025
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Carrot Tops Are Not Poisonous, and the Rumour Seems to Trace to a Blog Post
The belief that carrot greens are toxic is remarkably widespread and has no scientific basis. They are a bitter, parsley-like herb, they make an excellent chermoula, and the alkaloid argument applies equally to spinach.
Sep 4, 2026
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Vegan Mushroom Bourguignon: Red Wine Braise
Mushrooms braise in burgundy wine until luxuriously tender. A plant-based answer to beef bourguignon, rich enough for special dinners.
Oct 8, 2024
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Keto Shawarma Bowl: The Spice Does the Work, Not the Bread
Shawarma seasoning was never the carbohydrate. Roast chicken thighs and cauliflower hard, build a garlic sauce that is not thickened with anything, and the bread turns out to be optional.
Aug 10, 2026
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Kibbeh Without Bulgur: The Potato and Rice Version Levantine Kitchens Already Make
Kibbeh is defined by bulgur, which is cracked wheat, so the gluten-free version has to be rebuilt rather than substituted. The good news is that the rebuild already exists in the region's own repertoire.
Aug 11, 2026
Business
The Red Sea Crisis Is Squeezing Gulf Restaurant Margins
Shipping disruption is pushing up the cost of imported produce and packaging, and Gulf restaurateurs are running out of room to absorb it quietly.
Apr 9, 2024
Nutrition
Eating the Same Meal in a Different Order Cut Post-Meal Glucose by More Than a Third
Identical food, identical calories, identical macronutrients. The only variable was what went in the mouth first, and glucose at sixty minutes fell by 36.7 per cent. It is the cheapest intervention in diabetes nutrition.
Aug 18, 2026
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Palestinian Food: A Guide to the Dishes, Regions and Rules
Not a single cuisine but several, split between coast, hills and desert. What defines it, which dishes matter, and why so much of it is built on olive oil, wheat and the seasons.
Aug 9, 2026
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Spanakopita Done Properly: Squeeze the Spinach, Buy Real Feta, and Stop Being Afraid of Filo
The Greek spinach and feta pie fails for two reasons: wet spinach and cheap cheese. Fix both and the filo takes care of itself. A full-tray recipe with dill, spring onions and a properly crisp top, plus the rules for handling the pastry.
Sep 6, 2026
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Shish Tawook vs Shawarma: They Are Not the Same Chicken
Both are marinated chicken, both arrive in flatbread with garlic sauce, and they are made by completely different methods. The difference is the heat, and it changes everything.
Aug 14, 2026
Nutrition
A Diet Trial Was Stopped Early Because the Control Group Was Doing Measurably Worse
PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.
Aug 15, 2026
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Shawarma, Gyro, Doner and Al Pastor Are the Same Machine in Four Languages
Three of those words literally mean turning. The fourth means shepherd, and it exists because a hundred thousand Lebanese migrants arrived in Mexico and their children swapped the lamb for pork and added pineapple.
Aug 21, 2026
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Warak Enab Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves: Tender and Aromatic
Tender grape leaves stuffed with spiced rice and beef, then simmered in a lemony broth. A patient dish that rewards slow cooking and care.
Jan 30, 2025
Latest Trends
Baked Feta Pasta: The TikTok Recipe That Refuses to Die
A Finnish food blogger's oven-baked feta recipe crossed an ocean, hit TikTok two years late, and still hasn't left anyone's dinner rotation.
Nov 20, 2023
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The Same Beans, Four Countries, Four Different Breakfasts
Egyptian ful is crushed, oily and cumin-heavy. Lebanese ful keeps chickpeas in it and more lemon. Sudanese ful arrives under cheese. The bean is the same and almost nothing else is.
Aug 15, 2026
Travel
Where to Eat Plant-Based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu, a food court burger stand, and the cafes in between: plant-based dining across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Aug 14, 2025
Recipes
Maqluba: The Palestinian Rice Dish You Serve by Flipping a Pot
Layered chicken, fried aubergine and spiced rice cooked in one pot, then turned out whole onto a platter. The name means upside down, and the flip is the entire performance.
Jul 30, 2026
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Musakhan: Palestinian Sumac Chicken on Bread That Drinks the Oil
Roast chicken over onions cooked in an amount of olive oil that feels wrong until you taste it, with sumac doing the work salt cannot. A dish built around the olive harvest.
Jul 29, 2026
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Ghormeh Sabzi: Persian Herb Stew with Kidney Beans
Iran's unofficial national dish layers fresh herbs, kidney beans, and dried limes into a deeply aromatic stew. Serve it over saffron rice for pure comfort with complexity.
Jan 8, 2025
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Ful Medames: Breakfast That Has Outlasted Every Empire in Egypt
Fava beans simmered until they collapse, crushed with garlic, lemon and olive oil, eaten out of a bowl with bread. Older than the pyramids by some accounts, and still what Cairo eats at dawn.
Aug 14, 2026
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Za'atar Is a Herb, a Blend and an Argument About Land
The same word means a wild hillside herb and the sesame-and-sumac mixture made from it. Knowing which one a recipe means is the difference between a good jar and a disappointing one.
Aug 13, 2026
