WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | coconut cream bread | scallion pancake | apple | middle-eastern style mint yogurt drink
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- salad: radish, arugula, green olives, pickled lupini beans and walnuts in lemon walnut oil dressing | Lebanese confit vegetables: onion, leek, shallots,spring onion, mushroom, tomato | Lebanese Bedouin-style spinach, lentil and lemon soup | white wine
- reported from NYT: "... Last year, Unesco added the Mediterranean diet to its list of the world’s great intangible cultural treasures in need of safeguarding... In Eastern Mediterranean countries like Lebanon, obesity is growing — especially among the young, an increasing number of whom are happy to trade their eggplants for French fries and milkshakes at Roadster." by Annia Ciezadlo (author of Day of Honey)
