Tuesday, March 19, 2013

James Beard on Bread

"If you can read and have an oven and a work space, there is no reason why you can’t make a decent loaf of bread." —James Beard

This is what I have been preaching all along. I would even say you don't need to read. Everything lies in our little brain (stubborn). We have to battle our fears and just try. Success is eminent when you give it a chance and bake until you succeed.

Good luck!

Cooking by the Numbers ... Man'oushe

Looking into the bestselling cookbooks of 2012

One name comes up over and over again in discussions of the future of cookbooks: Ottolenghi. Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem (Ten Speed, 2012) is drawing attention to Middle Eastern cooking both here and in the U.K. (where Ottolenghi has four restaurants).

Kate Heddings, deputy food editor of Food & Wine and executive editor of the magazine’s cookbooks, such as America’s Greatest New Cooks (Feb.), says Middle Eastern seems to be the hot new cuisine. She foresees growing popularity for Jewish and Persian food and points to the success of Clarkson Potter’s The Mile End Cookbook (2012) and anticipation for Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built (Schocken, Mar.) by Mark Russ Federman, former owner of the eponymous appetizer store on New York’s Lower East Side. In May, Interlink hopes to capitalize on the burgeoning Middle Eastern trend with Barbara Abdeni Massaad’s Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery, about the pizza-like national pie of Lebanon.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Messages from Lebanon: The Food Manifesto

This woman is wonderful. She is preaching the Slow Food philosophy without even knowing about Slow Food. It's common sense. Eat local foods, women cook for your family, preserve traditional recipes.
God bless you ya hajjeh!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Mashrou' Leila - Lebanese Band and Controversy



Bravo, keep going... continue. We need more like you! The music rocks and the lyrics are authentic, true to the actual culture and ideologies the young are living through. Sometimes that bothers some people, who cares!

IMC at Biofach 2013


I wish I was going...

IMC at Biofach 2013


The annual appointment at Biofach gets renewed, the international exposition of organic products that is going to be held from 13th February to 16th February in Nuremberg, Germany.
IMC will participate in the fair with an info stand in which IMC will present its certification services for agriculture, aquaculture, agro food and restaurants.
 
At the IMC stand it will be also possible to meet certified companies and find the best products of the Italian and Mediterranean culinary tradition.

IMC will also present to the press and visitors Conosci il tuo pasto Restaurants & Food 2013, the first circuit of certified restaurants in Italy and Lebanon that promotes organic, bio-dynamic, and local products, fair trade commerce and quality Mediterranean agriculture. The Guide is available online in an English and Italian version on the blog
www.conosciiltuopasto.it. On the guide are also indicated the certified organic shops and the ice cream parlors where to find an organic ice cream.

 

Visit us at the Hall 4 Stand 316!!


The illustrated catalogue of the companies that participate at the Biofach 2013 (here)


read all at ww.imcert.it 

Veronica and I (she's going!)



Popular Posts