When my daughter and I were debating coloring  Easter eggs, I was reminded of how my aunt in Syria used to color wheat stalks when she wove baskets.  She used beet juice, which had the most brilliant red color I’ve ever seen.  I used to watch her boil the beets, then squeeze the juice out of [...]

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Harrak be Usbaoh means burn your fingers.  This lentil dish require you to drop small dough into the boiling lentil stew. I think the ladies burned their fingers doing so and that how the name came about. It is great dish, can be eaten hot or cold. I love this dish cold in hot summer [...]

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Like many cooks, when I look in my pantry I find food that I’ve collected somewhere but for the life of me I don’t remember what it is or where it came from.  It is stuff I don’t have the heart to throw it away, but I’m a little bit afraid to investigate to see [...]

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When I go into a department store I head right for the cosmetic counter.  What used to be a simple stroll through various lipsticks, foundation make-up, now appears to be a visit to a food market.  What is being sold now for cosmetics for shoppers are such items as soy extract, grape seed oil, oat [...]

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