By Mariam Al-Zayani ~
MANAMA, BAHRAIN — Bahrain's rich culinary history is being revamped by a palate-leaping dualistic blend: classic dishes and multicultural street fare are marrying up with new-generation food and international flavor to form a tasty crossroads that has locals and traveling foodies in its grasp.
Heritage on the Plate
Classic Bahraini dishes—e.g., machboos, quzi, and mah́yawa—long over due are now gaining growing international recognition beyond national fare. Martinique-born Best Female Chef 2022 in the MENA region, Tala Bashmi, uses black-lime (lumee) to prepare A5 Wagyu tikka Gulf standards, placing Bahrain on the gastronomic map today. Bahrain food historians verify this food renaissance to have some roots in the nation's history as an Arabic, Persian, Indian, and African-influenced merchant crossroads.
Street...
By Rachel Bennett ~
Aroning amidst and around kitchens old-world, around which history is the center of tables where family, memory, and taste converge, the world is being courted by Türkiye beyond hunger—she's courting...
By Jana Al-Mazraa ~
Nurtured under the umbra of the cradle of antiquity, Jordanian food is social validation of tradition, hospitality, and flavor. Jordanian food is so much more than mere fuel for...
By Yael Cohen ~
Tel Aviv's Za'atar Za'azar Carmel Market smells of hot falafel fried to order and the acrid aroma of za'atar being ground. There seem to be hardly any corners that are not filled by brightly colored shaded stalls piled high with pomegranates bursting with juice, smoked meat, and great piles of hot...
The Syrian cuisine is a whole range of flavors that signifies the magnificent history of the country and multi-culture. It is rich in multi-varied stews of deep spice, fresh season fruits, and traditional...
Syrian culinary heritage is but a fraction of the richness of Syrian heritage and history. Everywhere throughout the country, from affluent bazaars in Damascus to villages, the home space has been social rooms...
The Syrian cuisine is a whole range of flavors that signifies the magnificent history of the country and multi-culture. It is rich in multi-varied stews of deep spice, fresh season fruits, and traditional way of cooking, nutrition, and bliss in convention and tradition. The Syrian cuisine is being discovered outside by chefs and gourmet food lovers with success of the taste profiles.
Most of the Syrian cooking is safe and generation after generation, family occasion food-based good tradition-free. Shawarma, kibbeh, and kebabs are great examples of such social coexistence enjoyed, all of them fun to prepare as well as credit for which is as follows in the case of human social life as well as personal life.
Spices also have its role as a working ingredient of Syrian food since plain...
Saudi Arabia is walking into the limelight as an emerging food place of the Arabian Peninsula on the shoulders of the emerging new Saudi chefs who mix traditional with modern ways of cooking to lead the way for emerging Saudi cuisine. The emerging cuisine will put the culinary platform of the country on the world's highest podium with an emphasis on locally produced foods in the backdrop of multiracial influences.
The final of the old strong tastes, spices, and foreign material, the Arabian food has made its quiet way everywhere in the globe. It is going to overtake this Saudi generation of restaurateurs and chefs with a taste which draws...
On Oman's extended coastline, a culinary revolution is overwhelming the country, putting taste on the country's food identity. Recruiting the country's most prized pearls of the sea, chefs in the Sultanate are finding seafood in the limelight—blending tradition with contemporary techniques to cook food in an attempt to commemorate Oman's sea-faring past.
Being located between the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman geographically, the country is extremely rich in fresh sea food. Traditional fishing profile and geographical position hitherto had served it well and are being explored by the new generation of chefs eager to place the country's identity on the plate. The big ones are the grouper (hammour), kingfish, and pomfret in the retail market, which are usually handled by the owner himself in order to keep them...
Saudi cuisine is as stubborn tradition as it is adventurous modern food. The rich diversity and complexity of Saudi Arabia are such that they are fulfilled in the cuisine, a backward glance in the rearview mirror to see what was there first and an open door to innovative contemporaneity.
Home food is the backbone of Kingdom's cuisine. Home cuisine, cut from home culture and soil, still gets prepared traditionally and from local supplies. Simple food like long, seasoned rice food burn trenches, lentil soup, and honey deserts are testaments to farm origins and firm loves of soil. Recipes, some of which have been passed successively from generation to generation, look...
As heavenly as the Mediterranean is said to be over the food, look at Lebanon's soil here. Lebanese cuisine, the pinnacle of millennia-old then-present, is being refurbished with sophistication, creativity, and newness of...
By Lior Ashkenazi ~
Golden afternoon sun shines through Tel Aviv's rainbow-colored Carmel Market, intense with scents—pungent za'atar overpowers, wood...
On Oman's extended coastline, a culinary revolution is overwhelming the country, putting taste on the country's food identity. Recruiting the country's most prized pearls of the sea, chefs in the Sultanate are finding...
Za'atar and Bread are gastronomic pillars of the Middle Eastern gastronomic world, but non-negotiable signs of cultural identity, continuity, and survival. The staples—a resilient social and quotidian memory component—are Palestinian and Levantine society...
Sultanate cuisine is a chronicle of history of the nation as crossroads and trading center. As the geography of the country is bounded between the Hajar Mountains and Arabian Sea, the nation inherited...
Brussels - On Thursday (Octobre 16, 2025), the European Commission and the High Representative set out a new ambitious strategy to strengthen EU relations...
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for...
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