Moses describing the platform in poetic terms to the Delegates: "God found them in a desert region, in an empty howling waste....He set them atop the highlands to feast on the yield of the earth,...milk of cows, best of lambs, and rams, and goats, with the very finest wheat and wine".
Serves 4-6 5 medium shallots vegetable oil 75g pine nuts 2 tsp Lebanese seven spice salt and pepper 175g fine bulgur wheat 1 onion 450g very finely minced goat meat (you can also use lean beef) 1 tsp salt Preheat the oven to 180C.
Rinse the fine bulgar wheat in cold water until the water runs clear, then drain well in a sieve and put in a bowl.
However, good quality ingredients – fine durum wheat flour and rich, well-flavoured eggs – and the time to work to a smooth, silky finish, are essential.
Serves 4 4 large potatoes 1 shallot 7-8 mint leaves 100g fine bulgur wheat 1 tsp salt 1 tsp white pepper Slice the potatoes into rounds about 1cm thick and boil until cooked and just floury.
Potato kebbeh This is a vegetarian kebbeh, also known as false kebbeh – kebbeh is often a purée of minced meat coated in fine bulgur wheat, stuffed and shaped into balls – and is eaten during Lent or when meat is not available.
In Revelation 18, the author imagines the judgment on the merchants of Babylon Romee) and how they weep because they cannot any longer sell "their cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
The chef, Tomas Curi, formerly of Corsino, gives a little chile kick to his fine whole-wheat scones, for example.
"They all knew exactly where their flour came from," she said of her neighbors, "and who made the finest cracked wheat burghul.
The passage, about the fall of Babylon, reads: "Cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves".
