Making Real Garlic Aioli (Toum) the Lebanese Way
There is little room for error when one makes true Lebanese Garlic Aioli (also know as “Toum”) . Unlike European aioli, it traditionally has only 4 ingredients (olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and salt). Counter-intuitively, having just 4 ingredients increases the difficulty in achieving its signature creamy texture. That is because emulsifying [...]
Continue ReadingPaleo Diet: A Healthy Way Back to Nature
Anyone could tell you that we were not designed to eat the modern Western diet. We didn’t evolve to eat cheese burgers and sugar sodas. It isn’t natural. A growing community has responded to this unhealthy eating trend by modeling the foods they eat after the human diet before the arrival of civilization and farming. This is called the [...]
Continue ReadingA Cup of Sumatran Perfection for Breakfast
Coffee from the Indonesian island of Sumatra is at the top of the coffee pyramid. It has that signature taste of Indonesian coffee, making it such an exotic treat for the coffee lover. Why Sumatran Coffee? Sumatra has its own coffee tradition, separate from much of the coffee produced in Java, other areas of Southeast Asia and the rest of [...]
Continue ReadingA Quick Food Guide To The Mediterranean Diet
What country has the best diet? Studies have proven that the Mediterranean diet that is eaten in Italy, Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean is substantially healthier than what the average American eats. People who follow it live longer and have lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Studies also suggest that it can make a difference [...]
Continue ReadingThe History of Hummus
Photo by Steve Johnson. All we know about Hummus suggests that it is ancient. But finding a single place and time of invention has evaded historians.Part of the reason for this is how do you define Hummus. Hummus only means “chickpea” in Arabic. What Westerners think of as Hummus is actually called “Hummus bi tahini” in the Middle [...]
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