Lentil soup with chicken simmers in the kitchen, filling Joe Geha’s home with mouth-watering aromas of coriander, onions, garlic and leeks. In Arabic, the soup is called Rishta and its recipe is the ...

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 ...

March 10 marked the start of Ramadan and desserts are one major category of food that cannot be missing at any holiday table or gathering. If you have a sweet tooth, you'll love Arabic desserts ...

SAN ANTONIO — Nearly every day for the past month, members of St. George Maronite Church have been preparing dishes such as kafta, hummus and tabbouleh for the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people who will ...

We all have them, lurking in the forgotten recesses of our kitchens: old racks of even older spices. Unused herbs, overlooked seeds, bottles of colored dust, labels faded. But read Ana Sortun’s debut ...

For Harbor Springs cookbook author Maureen Abood, family Christmases Up North were made unforgettable with her mom’s Lebanese family recipes. Maureen shares her memories (and recipes!) from her ...

CRANSTON, R.I. — When the ladies of the Holy Rosary Sodality are baking for the upcoming festival for St. George Maronite Catholic Church, you can hear them before you see them. I’m not talking about ...

This week’s recipe is for salad again. It seems a lot of people get in ruts when it comes to salads. I think maybe I’ll feature salads for a couple more weeks to give you some salad inspiration. This ...

Each year our church holds its annual Youth Stockholder Banquet to celebrate those who supported the youths on their summer mission trips. The high school students went on a weeklong mission trip to ...

“Rose Water & Orange Blossoms” (Running Press, $30), the debut cookbook by Maureen Abood, evokes both her Lebanese-American heritage and her life as a cook, writer, photographer and blogger in ...