It WAS morning when I started this….
Bread Baking Babes: Lebanese Morning Bread (Khobz al-Sabah), September 2023
Bread, of course, is the real staff of life, and nowhere more so than on Mediterranean streets.
– Anissa Helou, Introduction, Mediterranean Street Food, p.xxii
Throughout the pandemic, I have been raiding our public library shelves and reading bread book after bread book. One of the books was Anissa Helou’s “Savory Baking from the Mediterranean”.
Now, three years later, with the WHO cautiously saying that it is no longer a pandemic and things relaxing, in mid-July, I flew to the UK to take a course. When I was there, I ate like royalty. Most of that eating was in the dining hall at the school. But there were three nights when I was on my own: one night in York just before the course started, and two nights in Edinburgh just after the course was finished. (continue reading )