This Cork food stall's Lebanese mezze boxes are great for a balanced lunch

WHETHER you want to bring lunch into the office, eat in a park, or go on a picnic, summer is a time for lighter, brighter options. Soggy sandwiches or limp salads just aren’t going to hit the spot. Instead, we’re craving fresh ingredients, bold flavours, and bright colours to nourish us — body, mind, and soul — while the sun shines.

Someone who understands the power of uplifting food is Rabih Farah, known as the Beirut Baker — after his homeplace in Lebanon. He is the owner and cook behind Bia Beirut, a stall he set up with his Cork-born wife, Pamela Crowley-Farah, to bring traditional Lebanese food to farmers’ markets in Cork.

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