Category: Uncategorized

  • 17, June
    It’s official. Kitty Fotsaty is my new favourite belly dancer. I had never heard of Kitty until I started looking for my belly…
  • 15, June
    It’s nearly forty years since I left Lebanon. There were many things that I hated about Beirut and many that…
  • 15, June
    Today world leaders have finally called on the lion to step down. Let’s hope he does, and without delay although…
  • 15, June
    It’s lucky I don’t invite the same friends all the time otherwise they might get bored of eating the same…
  • 15, June
    It’s that time of the month again when I am thinking about belly dancers and my choice for September is…
  • 15, June
    Like figs, pomegranates are the symbol of fertility. Legend has it that Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of…
  • 15, June
    These pickled lemons are the doqq variety which is small and very thin skinned. Anissa: It has been quite some time…
  • 15, June
    It must be my art background but I just love beauty. In everything. People, objects and of course food. And…
  • 15, June
    The modern part of the caves d’affinage (where they age the cheese) in Fort des Rousses. The old part is…
  • 15, June
    I have this theory that however cosmopolitan and well-travelled you are, you always go first to the dishes you liked…