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A Book on Lentils

I love books which deal with one subject! Two lovely women, one from Beirut, living in England and one from Italy, also living in England joined forces to collaborate on this magnificent read. The book is written professionally, it shows immediately. You are tempted to try the recipes as you go through the pages. In fact, today I will try one with lentils and farro. Luckily, I have some farro that I purchased in Italy during Terra Madre.

Press Release info: What can happen when Lebanon and Italy are cooking dishes of lentils? From the unavoidable moujaddarah to original recipes such as lentil salad, octopus and celery, an explosion of flavours is guaranteed! With dishes from Lebanon, Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the Book “Lentils” is a travel album in which Claude Chahine Shehadi and Maria Rosario Lazzati share recipes, memories and cultural characteristics.
From traveling the world from the Mediterranean cuisine and the history of lentil, the authors give us fifty delicious recipes of lentils, between tradition and modern cuisine.

Release: October 2012
Texts: English (a French version is also available)
Format: 23x21cm
ISBN: 9782360860333

Chefs of Lebanon Unite!

Proud to be among these great chefs, God bless each and everyone of you! May you always have energy to cook food from the heart!!!

Beirut Cooking Festival 2012

The Beirut Cooking Festival is an initiative made by the people of Hospitality. They also organize Horeca every year. The fair is open to the public, non-professional alike. I will take part this year for a demonstration to introduce the "Community Kitchen Workshop" I will be hosting to teach children about food on a weekly basis. I invite you to come with your children to visit me at the stand. I will be baking bread because I believe that children learn a lot about cooking, baking, and life by making good bread.


Some amazing talents will be demonstrating their passion for cooking too!

Remembering Atelier Gourmand @ HORECA 2012

Obsession with Bread

"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour." Jose Marti

Makes Sense

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cook and Eat Lebanese Website

I'd like to introduce you, my readers, to this cool website. I really appreciate the initiative and recognize the work that goes into building such a data base. Cook and Eat Lebanese, as simple as that! It's easy and anyone can join. Most recipes are simple and reliable. Most are traditional, yet some are not. There's room for anyone to post. I refer to it from time to time and wondered if all you knew about it. So there, now it's published—don't say I didn't share. No excuses not to cook Lebanese folks!

Photo Found on Facebook

Man'oushe in Seattle

Today Chef Garrett sent me a photo of man'oushe cooking in a wood fire oven. He has been practicing a lot before the grand opening of Mamnoon. How exciting!

Heaven!