Lifestyle Section (Day 2) at the Beirut Cooking Festival 2013

Be part of the daily workshops, meet etiquette consultants, designers, florists, food service experts and dietitians at the Beirut Cooking Festival.

Program:

– 12:15 p.m. until 1:15 p.m.
Author, photographer, food consultant and TV host Barbara Massaad discusses Slow Food Beirut, a Lebanese group seeking to promote a good, clean, and fair food system in Lebanon.

– 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Imad Haddad, owner of Bonsai, teaches you how to spice up your table with a sophisticated centerpiece.

– 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Marc El Beyrouthy, associate professor and head of the Agricultural Sciences Department at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences At USEK University, and Nathalie Asmar Yaghi, clinical dietitian and nutrition consultant at Nathalie Yaghi Diet Clinic give you the secrets to healthy recipes for seasonal foods.

– 5:15 p.m. until 6:15 p.m.
Richard Khoury, general manager of Richman Trading and Services Company, shows you the classy way to serve fondue this winter and the elegant way to fold napkins.

– 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Kinda Bitar, agriculture engineer and landscape designer, confirms that it’s time to have your bulbs planted and shows you how to make homemade pesticides and fertilizers.