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 ...

With dishes like chocolate hummus and sweet potato falafel sweeping social media, chef Jad Youssef says he’s concerned that “Lebanese food is losing its identity”. Lebanon-born Youssef moved from his ...

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 ...

A fork slips through Lina Georges’ mehshi koussa — zucchini filled with rice and richly spiced ground beef — with the ease of slicing room-temperature butter. Stuffing vegetables is a sacrosanct ...

In 2020, the pandemic sidelined Edy Massih’s catering business. That summer, his neighbor, who owned a Polish deli in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, approached him about taking over the space. Massih, who’d ...

Samke harra means “spicy fish” in Lebanese Arabic, though the dish — usually flavored with some variation of garlic, cilantro and nuts — rarely smolders with anything more than a flicker of cayenne.

I was never a massive hummus fan. So many of my pals in college would eat their weight in hummus, but it just never clicked with me. This was until I tried hummus at a Lebanese colleagues' parents' ...

You’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The first thing you see when you walk in the door at Sawa, a new ...

Nabila and Mike Farah at Nabila’s in Carroll Gardens. Photo: Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet Nabila and Mike Farah at Nabila’s in Carroll Gardens. Photo: Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet Five years ago, Mike Farah ...