From Lebanon to La Condesa: Lebanese food and culture in the capital

From Lebanon to La Condesa: Lebanese food and culture in the capital

Continuing our series on immigrant communities of Mexico City and their food, I dug in deep this week to research the history of the Lebanese community in Mexico — keepers of one of my favorite culinary traditions in the capital. It’s impossible to know when the first Lebanese immigrant set foot on Mexico’s shores. The beginning of Arab immigration to Mexico began before Lebanon was even a country. People from the area that is now Israel, Lebano…