Promoting Lebanese cuisine in NYC

In collaboration with the General Consulate of Lebanon, the Lebanese American University LAU organized last Friday an event under the banner ‘Food and Identity: Let’s Celebrate the Lebanese Cuisine in New York City’. The ceremony which took place at the LAU Academic Center in Manhattan, aimed at introducing Lebanese cuisine to American food connoisseurs. It included a dialogue session on the possibility of building the national identity through the preservation of food heritage. It saw the participation of famous people in the field like, Manal Qai’I, Charlie Chehadeh, Mathew Jaber Stiver and Philippe Mass3ud who toured and tasted the assortment of delicacies prepared and showcased by well-known Lebanese eateries based in the US. In the end, the Lebanese Consul, Majdi Ramadan, said that during his many visits to Lebanese Americans ,he noticed that they shared the traditional gastronomy, even the new generations, who might have already lost their mother language. Ramadan hoped that the diverse Lebanese cuisine would soon become a popular product in the States.

Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, June 18, 2016