What is/are your nationality/ies?
What is/are your ethnicity/ies?
How old are you?
Do you have or are you a part of a business or organization related Lebanese culture?
If so, please describe it.
Who lives in your home?
Who prepares the daily food in your home?
Who cooks food for special occasions?
Who in your family immigrated from Lebanon and when?
What part or region of Lebanon is your family from?
Why did you or your family immigrate from Lebanon?
Have you ever lived in or visited Lebanon? If so, for how long and/or how many times?
Do you make Lebanese food at home and how often?
What do you cook more - Lebanese food or food that is more typical of where you live?
Who taught you to cook Lebanese food or how did you learn? If you have/will have children, have you or will you teach them to cook Lebanese food?
Is the Lebanese food you cook now different from the food your parents or grandparents (or other relatives you grew up with)? If so, how?
Please be specific regarding dishes and ingredients!
What Lebanese dishes do you make at home?
Do you use recipes or do you cook from memory?
Does the person who cooks usually prepare food by themselves or are there multiple people involved in the cooking/preparation?
Does this differ with daily food versus special occasions?
How do the dishes you make for special occasions differ from everyday foods?
Do you make particular Lebanese foods for particular special occasions?
e.g. holidays, birthdays, new year
Do you have particular ways of cooking or eating that are associate with your Lebanese heritage and/or your family in particular?
e.g. do you always make kibbi in the same, particular way? Do you eat mezze with your hands or bread directly from a shared plate?
Do you have things in your kitchen that you use specifically for Lebanese food?
for example, an ibrik for Arabic coffee, particular plates for serving food, décor or memorabilia associated with your family or Lebanon...
If you are of mixed heritage (e.g. one Lebanese parent and one parent of different heritage), how have the foods of your mixed heritage influenced your cooking and/or in what way were/are they mixed in your home?
e.g. your family makes both turkey and stuffed grape leaves on Thanksgiving
In what way have you mixed your Lebanese food traditions and culture with the food traditions and culture where you live?
Do you ever invite Lebanese friends over to eat Lebanese food with you? Do you invite friends who are not Lebanese to join you for Lebanese food?
Also, do you ever have to show these friends or explain to them how to eat a particular dish, or do they ask how you like to eat it?
Are there specific ingredients for Lebanese dishes that you cannot find where you live? If so, what are they? How do you find them or do you substitute with other ingredients?
If you have relatives in Lebanon, how does the food they make in Lebanon differ from the food you make at home?
Do you exchange recipes or ingredients with relatives in Lebanon?
Are there dishes you make (or smells, rituals, etc.) that remind you of a specific person or time in your life?
If so, what are they and who or what do they remind you of?
Why do you cook Lebanese food at home or why is it important to you?
Or how do you feel when you cook or eat Lebanese food?
Do you eat in Lebanese restaurants?
What is the difference between the Lebanese food you cook at home and the food served in Lebanese restaurants where you live?
How has Lebanese food culture influenced or mixed with the local food culture and vis-versa, if at all?
e.g. in not-specifically-Lebanese restaurants, bakeries, food media (magazines, blogs, cookbooks)
Is the Lebanese food in restaurants where you live different from Lebanese food in different cities or countries where you have traveled? If you have traveled to Lebanon, how is the Lebanese food in restaurants where you live different or similar to the food in restaurants in Lebanon?
If you have traveled to Lebanon, how is the Lebanese food in restaurants where you live different or similar to the food in restaurants in Lebanon?
How well known is Lebanese food where you are now and how does that compare to years past? If awareness or popularity of Lebanese food has changed over the years, why or how do you think that has happened?
How would you compare the popularity of Lebanese food where you live to other ethnic foods?
e.g. comida india, africana, tailandesa, persa, escandinava
How would you compare the popularity of Lebanese food where you live to other ethnic foods?
What is your reaction when you go to a Lebanese restaurant that presents itself as 'Middle Eastern' (instead of specifically Lebanese)? What is your reaction when you go to a Lebanese restaurant that presents itself as 'Middle Eastern' (instead of specifically Lebanese)? How do you feel when you find Lebanese ingredients and dishes on menus of restaurants that are neither Lebanese of Middle Eastern?
Please share a recipe(s) with us for Lebanese dishes that you make frequently or that makes you feel at home.
We will never publish or use this recipe without your permission or without your name.
A space for anything else you'd like include, be it a story about your family, more thoughts on food, anything,
