![]() ![]() This lag may have been caused by my phone but I highly doubt it (I own an iPhone 6s+). While playing, I was met with extreme lag randomly, forcing me to close and reopen the game every 5 minutes or so. It's much better than the first Bakery Story in my opinion. ![]() The characters are cute, the graphics look good, and it isn't pay-to-win. “If it can (add) a drop in the ocean to help, then it makes me happy that I did this work.The game itself is quite nice. “For me, that’s something that’s very precious,” says Massaad. With the book, she found both a way to share Lebanese culinary culture and raise funds to feed those in need. Meaning ‘hopefully,’ in Arabic.”Īfter the blast, she lived in her own “little bubble” - focusing wholly on writing Forever Beirut. “And I say this with parentheses - inshallah. It’s a transition, hopefully, to better things,” says Massaad. Survivors of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), have said that today’s crisis is worse than living in fear of shelling or sniper fire. The UN estimates that 78 per cent of Lebanon’s population lives in poverty. Massaad echoes this sentiment: “We’re fed up with saying to ourselves, ‘We need to be resilient.’ No. As he and his team cooked and served meals, “a message that I heard again and again was that the people of Beirut no longer want to always have to be resilient,” Andrés writes. Cook this: Labneh balls in oil - labneh mouka'zaleh bi zeit - from Forever BeirutĬhef José Andrés, who wrote the book’s foreword, arrived in Beirut with his non-profit World Central Kitchen 48 hours after the explosion in August 2020.Cook this: Armenian meat flatbread from Forever Beirut.“If you can cook these recipes, then you’re good. ![]() ![]() There are many other classic recipes, Massaad highlights, but the soups, salads, breads and savoury pastries, mezze, kibbeh, grills, main dishes, preserves and sweets she features are the basics. “I just wanted to show the truth.”įorever Beirut is Massaad’s version of “Lebanese cooking 101.” She focuses on home cooking in 100 recipes, ranging from everyday staples such as labneh (“one of the most precious and delicious foods we eat”) to the stars of the Lebanese street corner bakery: man’oushé bi za’atar (wild thyme flatbread), man’oushé bi jibneh (cheese flatbread) and lahm bi ‘ajeen (Armenian meat flatbread). “I didn’t want to show this shiny image,” says Massaad. In the book’s photos, she set out to capture the reality of life in Beirut today - not a depiction of the “Paris of the Middle East” one might see on a postcard. So, it was a way to try to find healing, and at the same time, try to help the community. “Each one does his art or his work, and he does it in a certain way. Massaad dedicated the book to the victims of the blast and to those who are contending with Lebanon’s economic freefall. 23.Īs with her 2015 book, Soup for Syria, which raised awareness and more than $300,000 for refugees, Interlink Publishing is donating $1 from each sale of Forever Beirut to the Lebanese Food Bank. The book was published a few weeks after the two-year anniversary, on Aug. She submitted the manuscript “by pure coincidence” on Aug. Immediately following the blast, Massaad threw herself into writing her fifth cookbook, Forever Beirut (Interlink Books, 2022). This aerial view shows the damaged grain silos at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 3, 2022. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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