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 ...

Few vegetables have the transformational capability of the cauliflower. Accented with garlic and cream, cauliflower can sneak into your mashed potatoes, lightening the load of traditional spuds.

A native of Beirut, Lebanon, Grace Abi-Nam Shea lives an American life, thanks to her parents moving to Arlington, Virginia, many years ago. They had little education and sparse funds, but family ...

Lentil soup with chicken simmers in the kitchen, filling Joe Geha’s home with mouth-watering aromas of coriander, onions, garlic and leeks. In Arabic, the soup is called Rishta and its recipe is the ...

This is the Levantine version of tharid, made with Cornish hens as an alternative to lamb. Of all the versions of fatteh, it is the lightest, especially if you toast the bread as I do instead of ...

EAST LANSING — The dedication written within the first few pages of Maureen Abood's new cookbook, "Lebanese Baking," is telling in more ways than one. "For my mother, Maryalice Abood, the ultimate ...

Claudia Roden’s new cookbook, “Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, & Lebanon” ($35, Knopf), is a generous, warm, open-door invitation to explore the tenets and nuances of a rich culinary legacy.

Arab cuisine is thought to only feature meat dishes. However, the Middle East has a variety of dishes that are naturally ...

Try tangy parsley salads and cinnamon-date cookies with recipes that highlight the textures, spices, and traditions of one of the world’s most beloved cuisines. Molly McArdle is Food & Wine's Updates ...