In all the years that I lived in Beirut, I never saw anyone sell or eat camel meat, nor did I ever see any camels: Lebanon has no desert. Then, one day in the late ’90s, I was walking through the ...

Most recently the author of “Feast: Food of the Islamic World,” Anissa Helou grew up in Beirut with a Syrian father and Lebanese mother, and wrote her first book about Lebanese food in 1994. Now, she ...

There was also fried camel, camel soup with bones, and camel with vegetables. I tried a bit of tasty camel fat and the meat. It was gamy and lean, and very flavorful! We got a bit of all five ...