The Isfahani Biryani that spanks the rice out of all others.
One of the many eternal food questions in Dubai is where to get the best biryani. Fat boulders of lamb,
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A Glutton’s Guide: How to Cheat on Your Diet in Dubai.
If you were looking for ways to sneak off of a self-imposed diet, let me help you. You could wind
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Don’t ask me what you can eat in Old Dubai, ask me what you CAN’T.
The past few weeks have been a train ride of food experiences in the city. Everything from Emirati and Egyptian
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I smelled. I tasted. I ate like a cow. Baghali Polo with Mahicheh at Iran Zamin.
This is how I found the Iranian dish that left me no choice but to betray my erstwhile Iranian love:
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Frying Pan Secrets Revealed: A Self-Guided Foodie Trail through Dubai
I often don’t post up many of the articles I write for other publications on this blog (wait what? other
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One motherly lady, a pot of simmering stew, a ladle of love later, I became an Ethiopian food convert.
In 2011, I published a post called: Anyone out there found yummy Ethiopian food? In retrospect, it was terribly written
Koshari Missiles around the Corner.
Folks who aspire to open their own restaurant someday, should you ever plan to unleash a bi-lingual menu into the
An Iskendar Kabab in Deira that Needs to be Revered, Glorified, Idolized. (…and eaten when the others aren’t looking.)
A few of you might have suffered through my obsessive Iskendar kabab ramblings in the past—and this is definitely going
Did you know that Tagine in Tunisia looks like…
…that picture above? Yep, the frittata-looking one. When this tagine hits the table, anyone expecting a pretty Moroccan claypot tagine
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Palestinian Oniony Chicken Pie in Hor Al Anz that was Out. Of. Control.
Check this out. THIS is the sort of onion-latticed bread and chicken MEGA bullet I want shooting right through my mouth.
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A Two Day Butter Binge: Tashreeb, Pav Bhaaji, and Daal Makhani.
I’m not sure how many of you are looking for fun and obnoxiously greasy ways to cheat on a diet
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Hallelujah, I finally wrote the Bhatkali Biryani post.
The reason this is such an achievement is less because the biryani was some sort of meat and rice epiphany—it
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