Middle East Meets Middle America
Middle East Meets Middle America An ancient cuisine is finding a foothold in the mainstream. Middle Eastern cuisine is a category as vast and broad as, well, the desert. Distinguished by intoxicatingly aromatic spices and herbs, generous vegetable inclusions, plant-based proteins such as chickpeas and other legumes, and healthy fats pressed from sesame seeds and olives, it offers a bounty of dishes for vegetarians and vegans as well as for lovers of chicken, lamb, and beef (though not pork because of halal and kosher prohibitions). A significant part of the Middle East lies on t...
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