Tag: Lebanese cuisine

• Sampling a Lebanese Cuisine in Westlands

  

  The Phoenicians were sailors, weren’t they? And, back many years BC (from 1,500 to 300 BC, to be precise), their lands stretched across what is now Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Syria and south-west Turkey. Even further, their colonies, so Wikipedia tells us, reached right across the Mediterranean and to the Atlantic Ocean. So it is hardly […]

  John Fox

  20/11/2017

  Food

  Japanese Cuisine, Lebanese cuisine, Nairobi, Restaurant, The Phoenician, Westlands

• Tastes of Lebanon

  

  I must have picked up quite a few Kenyan-English expressions – something you usually don’t realise until you see the puzzled, and sometimes amused, reaction of people when you use them with non-Kenyans. One of my favourites is ‘social’ – used instead of ‘sociable’. ‘He’s a nice guy,’ you Kenyans say. ‘Good company, good conversationalist […]

  John Fox

  23/03/2008

  Food

  Cedars Restaurant, Lebanese cuisine, Nairobi, Restaurant