Hope everyone is enjoying the New Year so far. I started it out with a bang at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco! The Fancy Food Show is a multi-block convention center filled to the brim with every food trend you ever thought imaginable. This year the predominant food trends seemed to be primal protein…… Continue reading Fancy Food Show Highlights and New Nutrition Series!
Tag: fitness
7 Reasons Why Cooking is a Sign of Strength!
If I had a dollar for every time I hear the phrase “Women belong in the kitchen” I would have a nice stash of cash. The reality is, there are many women AND men, who enjoy being in the kitchen that also have many other talents and responsibilities. I have met many doctors, lawyers, teachers,…… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why Cooking is a Sign of Strength!
How Intermittent Fasting Changed My Life- On Fasting and Feasting
While this blog is on Middle Eastern food, I am also a fitness trainer, and am very passionate about health and fitness. Many people in the middle east live long healthy lives because they regularly fast. How many times have you heard “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” or “You have…… Continue reading How Intermittent Fasting Changed My Life- On Fasting and Feasting
Announcements and Giveaways!
Hi Everyone! Happy summer! I want to thank my Patreons for helping me keep Feast in the Middle East afloat. It is quite expensive to churn out high quality cooking videos, and the only way I can produce these videos more often is through viewer’s help. So thank you so much to those that have…… Continue reading Announcements and Giveaways!
Busting through a fat loss plateau: Intermittent Fasting!
I know this is off the topic of Middle Eastern food, but in some ways this blog has very much to do with a lifestyle practiced in the Middle East for millenia. I am talking about intermittent fasting, the eating plan that has recently taken the fitness world by storm. I have gotten many e-mails…… Continue reading Busting through a fat loss plateau: Intermittent Fasting!
Avochocolado! (Chocolate Mousse)
Do you find yourself wanted to pull out all of your hair during this election? Do you just want to run into a closet with a jar of Nutella and make it all go away? Maybe you fantasize about buying that bungalow on a beach in Bora Bora, just to stay there for the next…… Continue reading Avochocolado! (Chocolate Mousse)
Macho Nachos!
The nacho obsession in my family began when my siblings and I were in grade school at a sports spirit rally. Like most children, we didn’t really have high culinary standards, so salty crunchy chips drowning in a fake cheezy sauce hooked us immediately. In high school we looked forward to our parents’ night out…… Continue reading Macho Nachos!
The Veggie Burger Re-invented – Kibbeh style!
Have you checked the ingredient list of store-bought veggie burgers lately? Many of them are teeming with GMO soy, GMO canola oil, funky fillers, and chemicals I cannot pronounce ((gasp)) The human body would recognize an organic, grass fed beef burger more than the frozen veggie monstrosities you see in the supermarket frozen section. It…… Continue reading The Veggie Burger Re-invented – Kibbeh style!