Barbara Abdeni Massaad


Barbara Abdeni Massaad (born March 15, 1970, Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-American cookbook author,[1][2] photographer,[3] food consultant, and TV host. She is the author of several cookbooks, including Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery and Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry, which have been translated into French and Arabic, respectively.

Barbara Abdeni Massaad
Massaad in a field of poppies in Akkar District
Born (1970-03-15) March 15, 1970
Beirut, Lebanon
OccupationAuthor, photographer, food consultant, TV host
TelevisionHelwi Beirut
Spouse(s)Serge Albert Massaad (married 1995)
ChildrenAlbert (1997), Maria (1999), Sarah (2000)
Websitebarbaramassaad.com

Early life

Massaad was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but soon emigrated to the United States with her parents. The family settled in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a teenager, she gained first culinary experience assisting her father, a photographer by training, in the family-owned Lebanese restaurant. In 1988, she

returned to Lebanon for university, graduating with a BA degree in Advertising and Marketing.

Career

Massaad trained with chefs at Lebanese, Italian, and French restaurants. In 2006, she joined the Slow Food Movement, an organization which promotes the preservation of local food traditions, biodiversity, and small-scale food production. She is one of the founding members of Slow Food Beirut and a delegate of the international Terra Madre Community. She represented Lebanon in 2007 in the biannual Slow Food Worldwide Congress] in Puebla, Mexico.

In 2012, Massaad wrote Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery, .[4] The book, created in collaboration with Raymond Yazbeck, contains about 70 recipes, for these Lebanese pies, including typical varieties found in street corner bakeries, but which can also be made at home. Her second book Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry; , [5] includes a selection of recipes, photos and accompanying stories. Her third, Mezze: A Labor of Love, illustrated by Pascale Hares, includes recipes for the creation of the traditional Lebanese dish mezze.

Massaad hosted a weekly TV segment on Lebanese/International channel LBCI on Helwi Beirut, featuring culinary tours around Lebanon, focusing on local foods, interviewing and cooking with local chefs, producers, housewives and farmers.

After visiting a refugee camp in Syria, in 2016 Massaad published another cookbook, Soup for Syria, designating the profits to support refugees.[6][7][8] As well as her own recipes, the book contains soup recipes donated by a number of well-known chefs.[9][10]

Personal life

Massaad lives in Beirut with her husband Serge Massaad, and three children.

Awards and honors
  • Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award 2013[11]
  • Winner of “Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique” 2010[12]
  • Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award 2010[13]
  • Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award 2008[14]

References
  1. Annia Ciezadlo (1 February 2011). Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War. Simon and Schuster. pp. 324–. ISBN 978-1-4165-8422-3.
  2. "From bits to bites, Seattle techies embrace the restaurant world". Seattle Times. published December 27, 2014
  3. "Soup for Syria: chefs are stirred into action over refugee crisis". The Guardian, 22 October 2015.
  4. "The Bestselling Cookbooks of 2012". Publisher's Weekly.
  5. "Mouneh by Barbara Abdeni Massaad" Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. Taste of Beirut, March 2013.
  6. "Soup for Syria’ cookbook supports refugees". Boston Globe, By Sheryl Julian January 19, 2016
  7. "Una zuppa per la Siria". Dove, Maurizia Bonvini - 23 May 2016
  8. "'Soup for Syria' cookbook supports refugees living in camps" Archived 2018-10-28 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian, Margaret Prouse, May 19, 2016
  9. "Celebrity chefs give soup to humanitarian cookbook for Syria". Toronto Star. Jennifer Bain Oct. 21, 2015
  10. "Barbara Massaad curates cookbook to help Syrian refugees". The National, Stacie Overton Johnson, October 27, 2015
  11. "Gourmand Cookbook Award 2013". Cookbook Fair.
  12. "Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique" 2010". "Intergastronom. Archived from the original on 2013-12-26. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  13. "Gourmand Cookbook Award 2010". Publishing Perspectives. December 2012.
  14. "Gourmand Cookbook Award 2008". Cookbook Fair.
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