There are meals you never had, but which you wish had happened.  I imagined when I was learning and practicing recipes in Beirut in my teens that I would serve them at various occasions that were never very likely, not just because I was a girl and had little freedom to invite anyone home but also because the war made any such gestures all but out of the question.  One thing I would like to have done, but that was […]

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