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 ...

Kibbeh nayeh is a beloved Lebanese dish made with raw meat. A salmonella outbreak put kibbeh in the news last week — which is a shame, says... Growing up, I never knew I was eating raw meat. Or maybe ...

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 ...

Journalist Rami Khouri celebrates the kibbeh festival and Lebanese food and culture. Souk el Tayeb organized this event in Ehden to highlight the importance of food traditions and bring a divided ...

You can find plenty of falafel and hummus throughout Chicago, especially near Oak Lawn, Burbank and Chicago Ridge. But in Lombard this weekend, a church community is coming together to put on a major ...

When an enormous explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Aug. 4, it didn’t take the Mobarak siblings — Gibran, 19; Anais, 17; and Diego, 13 — long to act. By that Saturday, they’d launched ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Two Levantine restaurants have recently opened in Brooklyn that have ...