
arayess bil kofta — or discovering street food
Street food in Beirut wasn’t really street food for me for much of my childhood and adolescence because the streets where you could get it near me like Hamra were dark and forbidding and downright scary at night. The lamp lights would be off. The cinemas and shops that once blazed all down the street were extinguished. It was more like a wild habitat for militias and starving stray cats than the shopping and social heart of West Beirut. And […]
Categories: Lebanese recipes, memory and culture • Tags: kofta, lebanese catering