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SEPTEMBER 2007
  This month, we're featuring authentic recipes from Saveur magazine. Their staff travels the world, exploring a myriad of cuisines. They share not only recipes, tools and techniques, but the histories and traditions behind them. If you subscribe to only one cooking magazine, we highly recommend Saveur. When you're between issues, you can visit their well-organized and informative website.
Saveur's recipes include: Syrian Fried Artichoke Hearts with Taratur Sauce, Egyptian Bamia, Moroccan Eggplant Smothered with Charmoula Marinade, and Turkish Kusbasi Kebabi (Marinated Grilled Lamb Loin Strips). Enjoy!
A Blast from the Past
Friend, talented artist, and renouned cookbook author, Linda Dalal Sawaya, wrote recently asking how she could locate content featured here in years past. This prompted us to post our new archive pages. (Is "new archive" an oxymoron?)
Making a Difference
 With just a click of your mouse, sponsors of the Hunger Site will donate food to a person in need. They will also provide you with the opportunity to fund free mammograms, support children's health care and literacy, preserve the Rain Forest, and feed rescued animals. It's free, it's easy—there's no excuse not to do it!
Check out the Hunger Site's Fair Trade Store for inexpensive and unique gift ideas. Your purchases directly help to feed the hungry. And while you're there, consider sending two girls in Afghanistan to school for a year. For only $20, you can completely change the course of two people's lives. Quite a bargain.
MARCH 2007
Spring is here! The lemon trees are heavy with fruit, herbs are tender and abundant. Whether you grow your own or frequent your local farmer's market, the bounty of the season certainly inspires one to cook fresher, lighter fare.
  You'll find recipes that fit the bill in Claudia Roden's latest cookbook, Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. The beautiful full-page color photos are guaranteed to make your mouth water! And you will be hard-pressed to decide which of the three exciting cuisines you love most.
Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, Claudia gives us 150 delectable recipes — everything from mezze to dessert!
This month, Layalina Productions will be premiering "Ala al Tariq fi Amrika" (On the Road in America). This reality travelogue series will air on MBC. The show’s uniqueness stems from its ability to foster cross-cultural exchange and understanding, one of Layalina's primary goals.
Through the experiences of Arab university students traveling on their first visit across the United States for a ten-week journey, Arab audiences will vicariously discover America's diversity and uniqueness. At the same time, Americans interacting with the cast come away with a better understanding of Arab cultures and aspirations.
 Layalina is a non-profit public diplomacy initiative that fosters understanding between the U.S. and the Arab world through original television programming. If you'd like to support their work, please visit their website.
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