What I did this summer

Some of you might have heard a little about my trip to Lebanon. It was always hard to explain exactly what I did there. Well, the two older people in the picture above are Donna, my grandmother and Phil, her friend and client. The dark looking arab in the picture is Eddy, a friend and business partner of Phil's. Before I had ever met Eddy, he heard from my grandma that I was going on MESP, and he wanted his relatives (his two nephews Alfred and Philip) to meet me if I went to Lebanon. While on MESP, I planned my travel there with the idea that I would kinda cater to these people's wishes of making another American connection. Well it turned out that I couldn't tear myself away from them. Alfred and Philip hosted and fed me when I needed it and showed me around their country quite a bit. After coming back, I decided to finally meet and greet the mastermind behind the whole operation (BTW, I think he ran guns for the christians during the civil war...) I invited this classy and successful lebanese businessman over for some Kosheri! (He'd never had it) My mom made taboulah, flatbread and hommos, and Eddy brought some Lebanese wine. To make a long story short, we are real chums nowadays!

Damn, I miss kosheri for 20 cents a pound! Does anyone recognize the tablecloth?



Ladies and gentlemen, my Grandmother...


Hope you are all alive n' cookin... ma'a salams!