We're joined by Lara Ariss for Episode 85 of The Beirut Banyan, and we discuss Levantine flavors and Lebanese cuisine at home and abroad.

Lara shares her hopes and reservations with the uprising underway, and her personal expression of Lebanese identity through reimagining local recipes.

Lara is a local food writer and chef, and is the pastry chef at Blanca Café Bistro and chef expert at Mint Basil Market. She attended Le Cordon Bleu London. She published two cookbooks:

Levantine Harvest:

https://www.antoineonline.com/Product.aspx?productCode=0009786148010026

and Sweet Levantine:

https://www.antoineonline.com/Book_Sweet_Levantine_by_Lara_Ariss_9786148010033.aspx?productCode=0009786148010033

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