A vegan's heaven!

Honestly, I am not a person who understands the rationale behind being a vegan. I always wondered about what would such a person eat.
A dinner in Beirut Lebanon opened my eyes.

Lebanon prides itself for a rich Mediterranean diet. Mezze is a tradition where one dines on a spread of small dishes while drinking Arak (a sort of Ouzo). The variety of dishes is mind boggling and delicious.

Some of these dishes are:

• Hummus everybody knows what it is, 
• Tabbouleh everybody knows what it is, 
• Falafel everybody knows what it is. In Lebanon it is served with a salad made of tomatoes, parsley, pickles and tahini sauce.
• Chickpeas whole boiled swimming in sauce of lemon, garlic, and olive oil served hot to eat with flatbread
• Foul Medammas fave beans boiled, mashed with garlic, lemon, and olive oil served with tomatoes and parsley to eat with flatbread
• Mtabbal aubergine grilled and mashed with tahini, garlic, lemon, and topped with olive oil to eat with flatbread
• Batata Harrah potatoes cut into small squares and fried with coriander
• Mjaddarah rice and black lentils boiled together with fried onions, another type is done with burghul and lentils.
• Beans salads, one is with wide white beans boiled then served with finely cut onion and parsley swimming in a sauce of lemon and olive oil, another is small beans boiled with tomato sauce and onions with chili beans, served cold topped with olive oil.
• Squash cut in round thin slices, deep fried served topped with tahini sauce
• Burghul boiled with tomatoes, olives and onions, served cold.
• Aubergine grilled and cut into small squares served with small squared of tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, green paprika, and lemon.
• Shakshoukeh Green paprika bells stuffed with coriander, garlic, and tomators and cooked as a whole bells with olive oil.
• Stuffed wine leaves or aubergines, or squash, stuffed with a mixture of rice, tomatoes, garlic, onion and cooked in water and olive oil and lemon.

and so many others, I could spend hours describing the variety of Lebanese Mezze dishes that are delicious (yummy) and happen to be vegan!

Lebanese culinary culture has a lot to give.