Family keeps up Beirut dessert tradition

Family keeps up Beirut dessert tradition

Beirut —  At a shop nestled in a busy, crowded Beirut district, Hasan El-Makary is weighing out containers of warm, fragrant mufataka, a traditional sweet in the Lebanese capital that is rarely found in stores. “I’ve been in this shop for 50 years, but we started specializing in mufataka 30 years ago,” Makary said from … Read more