Word: tabbouleh
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...tons of hummus and three tons of tabbouleh are the newest additions to Lebanon’s arsenal in its struggle with Israel. Almost two weeks ago, the Lebanese set out to break the world record for largest hummus and tabbouleh dishes, previously held by Israel. The events took place on consecutive days and brought together 300 chefs and hundreds of citizens. Remarkably, the event was publicized and encouraged by different Lebanese political parties...
...Lunch on tabbouleh and stuffed vine leaves at Al-Khawali, tel: (963-11) 222 5808. A postprandial cardamom coffee should give you the energy for a tour of Azem Palace, the biggest Ottoman house in the Old City. You may snigger at the mannequins in period costume, but you'll gasp at the exquisite carving, painted ceilings and marble floors. Move on to Umayyad Mosque, one of the world's oldest, having been completed in 715. Before that, it was successively an Aramaean temple, a Roman temple and then a Byzantine church. Over the centuries it has become a meeting...
...evening of May 21, hundreds of business leaders from the region and beyond flowed through the halls of the hotel, past banks of honeysuckle and jasmine, into the garden, where cooks grilled chicken on giant charcoal burners and served baba ghanoush, tabbouleh and baklava. Participants at a conference on investment opportunities in Palestine, they talked up the prospects of the local information-technology industry (whose products, which can be whizzed to markets electronically, are not subject to the whims of Israeli border guards) and bragged about the performance of the Palestine stock exchange. At the center of the crowd-trim...
...thought, so to speak, about Arab culture. This he does with engaging humor and scant respect for many Arab governments. He intersperses juicy recipes and equally juicy stories about growing up in Nablus and attending conferences around the world as an adult. He explains how to make falafel, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush and lesser-known dishes. At the same time, the reader picks up knowledge that is not strictly culinary. For example, that baba means coquettish and ghanoush is, roughly, dissolute - adjectives that seem unlikely for an aubergine purée but which Jamal explains in a delightful story about...
...recognized in United Nations food relief packages. Apart from rice and lentils, mjadarah requires only onions, salt, cumin, water and samneh, or clarified butter. Jamal says the difficulty non-Arabs have finding ingredients such as samneh, the spice mix fulful bhar or bulgur, the cut wheat essential for tabbouleh, is diminishing as more and more Arabic shops open in European cities...