Middle Eastern

A. region where Turkish coffee was inscribed by UNESCO in 2013, mint tea travelled from Marrakech to Beirut on the trade route, arak was distilled in Mount Lebanon before the Phoenicians named it, and the dallah on the brass tray reads like a regional map. We pulled together every drink worth knowing — eight glasses, deep — from the qahwajis who guard the recipe and the regions that wrote the rules.

Middle Eastern sits under Drink in the HowTo Food menu. Guides for this section are still being brought over from the original edition.