Middle Eastern cuisine fava are cooked like other green beans, boiled and dressed in oil, or stewed with meat. The haricot beans and black-eyed beans are also common. Lentils, split peas, and chickpeas are widely used in soups, with rice, in salads, or with meat. Hummus, made from chickpeas and sesame paste, originated in Syria and Lebanon. Stuffed vegetables are a dish most associated with the Middle East in the popular mind. They are commonly called dolma, the Turkish word meaning "stuffed," but also the Arabic mahshi. Grape leaves, chard, and cabbage are stuffed with rice, ground meat, pine nuts, and spices, and
The Dish & the Spoon The Dish & the Spoon The Dish & the Spoon is a 2011 American film directed by Alison Bagnall, starring Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander, Eleonore Hendricks and Amy Seimetz. Rose (Greta Gerwig) leaves her cheating husband (Adam Rottenberg) and runs into a boy (Olly Alexander), at a boarded-up beach town in Delaware, who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Rose takes him along with her as she looks to confront her friend Emma (Eleonore Hendricks), for betraying her with her husband. In a series of vignettes, Rose and her boy learn how to fish, cast a rod, dance, get drunk,