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 ...

This is basically a Middle Eastern lamb tartare and, just as with steak tartare or carpaccio, the lamb needs to be as fresh as possible. I like to serve it as a starter with a minty salsa or as ...

Anissa Helou writes in "Feast: Food of the Islamic World," "If there is a dish that symbolizes the cooking of Aleppo, this has to be it." Little lamb meatballs are fried until browned, then cooked in ...

There’s a particular kind of comfort in Lebanese home cooking – the kind that fills the kitchen with the scent of toasted nuts, butter and spice long before anything reaches the table. It’s the smell ...