I apologize if this is a little too exciting but I have been looking for this food the last few, uh, 119 days. I had it at this food festival, loved it, bought out the vendor (it was the end of the day and they only had a gallon left) but I may have fallen in love with toum (it’s a dip made primarily of garlic, oil, and lemon but that really doesn’t tell the whole story the garlic is sweet).
I found toum at the fancy grocery today :3
I spent the evening eating pita covered in labne (tangy Lebanese yogurt) and toum. There’s a farmers’ market a few towns over where this guy sells the best bolani and now I can’t wait until market day.
Photo: Joe Lingeman
Guess we are lucky, can find it just about anywhere here. But we also have shawarma restaurants everywhere here and several middle eastern supermarkets.
for some reason people in my area are just discovering middle eastern and mediterranean food despite the best restaurant in the area for the last 30 years being a greek place, so idk.