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Family bonds are a long-term placement
Blog: ginger beirut - 1 November 2010
There are a few constants to eating out in Lebanon. Fantastic flavours, getting full beyond belief, and – at the end – the big fight over who gets to pay the bill. Treating others is considered an honour and an obligation. It becomes part of the ritual. After the mezze, the meat, the fruit and [...]
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Open house
Blog: ginger beirut - 25 October 2010
Have you noticed how when you call a plumber, an electrician or some other repair service, the chap always tells you he’ll come by, takes directions, and then hangs up? There’s me with my pencil poised and diary open, scanning my limited availabilities, and he just says he’ll come by and that’s it. As if [...]
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Mifteh al buttn, liqmé
Blog: ginger beirut - 8 October 2010
Lebanese food is famous throughout the world, but some of my most curious discoveries here have involved trying foods I grew up with but in a different form. As a child I remember we kept a bottle of rose water in the bathroom. A drop or two would be added to a hot bath or [...]
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Green without the spin
Blog: ginger beirut - 4 October 2010
As penance for my ungreen survival methods, I spent a day at the Renewable Energy Trade Fair and Beirut Energy Forum at the Metropolitan Hotel on 30 September 2010. So much ink has been spilled over green energy across the western world that terms like low-carbon technology, fuel substitution and energy efficiency are wielded like [...]
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Out of Town
Blog: ginger beirut - 1 October 2010
A digression from the Streets of Beirut sequence for this Friday’s photo.
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Beirut on a drip
Blog: ginger beirut - 27 September 2010
We are past the dizzy peaks of nearly 40 degrees Celsius experienced in August, but the air across the tin roofing still shimmers and I’m sure if there were any proper tarmac to speak of in Beirut it would be melting. This summer I’ve been frugal with the air conditioning, aware that many across the [...]
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