Around The World Cultural Food Festival – Washington Monument, National Mall
Saturday, June 16, 2018, 11 AM – 7 PM
Breakfast foods from around the world
LEBANON
A Lebanese breakfast is something you can’t resist. Food in Lebanese culture is all about sharing. So it’s rare to go a place and order your own plate. They usually order several dishes and they share them to get to taste a bit of everything.
There’s a popular saying in Arabic what defines eating in their culture which is, ‘ Isa btekol la 7alak betmout la Halak’, and it means ‘if you eat alone you die alone’. Oh, and breakfast without tea, nescafé, or juice is not a real meal!
Lebanese people welcome guests with Markouk (the type of unleavened Arabic flatbread), Tanner (Lebanese flatbread), olives, labneh, fresh cheese, pickles, seasonal vegetables (usually cucumber and tomatoes) served with sumac and olive oil dot the breakfast table accompanied by tea, coffee, lemonade or juice to drink.
For those who prefer a heartier breakfast, they also prepares mana’eesh, fatayer (meat pie, which can also be vegetarian with spinach filling), cheese rolls, yogurt fatteh with chickpeas, pine nuts and butter, shanklish (a goat’s cheese that gets fried up with onion and tomato), full moudammas, and a variety of egg dishes.
Discovering what Lebanon has to offer for breakfast is as diverse as the country’s beautiful topography.
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