A Beginner’s Guide to Traditional Eastern Mediterranean Dishes If you have ever bitten into a perfectly seasoned shawarma wrap, scooped warm hummus onto fresh flatbread, or watched a charcoal grill come to life with lamb kofte, you already know the power of Eastern Mediterranean food. But there is so much…

When most people hear the phrase ‘Middle Eastern food,’ they picture shawarma, hummus, and flatbreads. And they are not wrong.  But ‘Middle Eastern cuisine’ is a broad umbrella that spans an enormous range of cultures, cooking techniques, climates, and flavor traditions—from the Gulf to the Levant, from North Africa to…