Featuring Lebanese and regional delicious, authentic recipes.

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Mother, Yaqout (Ruby) Al-Faqih was born in 1916, in Lebanon. Most of the recipes in this cookbook were passed down several generations.

Yaqout’s destiny created the unique circumstances for the evolution and elevation of these recipes, and their journey to international, elegant dinner tables.

At 16 she married her sweetheart who, as a bilingual law student, was soon recruited into the political world. A few years later she would find herself entertaining international dignitaries and Royalty as the wife of Ambassador Al-Faqih.

Yaqout worked diligently at perfecting her culinary skills to meet the demands of the embassy’s official entertaining. She transformed into a confident, capable, witty hostess, whose dinners were a topic of conversation on two continents. This is Volume 1 of her original 500 page Compendium of Middle Eastern Cuisine.