214 Lebanese and Syrian home recipes — Lebanese dishes collected from families who have cooked them for generations, and 49 from Faten, a generous home cook in our Beirut building, originally from Idlib province in Syria. Every recipe traceable to the kitchen it came from.
Cooking mode reads every recipe step aloud — text-to-speech narration on most dishes (English or Arabic), plus four of Faten's dishes in her voice, digitally recreated from her own recordings. Phone on the counter, voice in the room, hands in the dough. The way recipes are taught at home.
Cooking mode includes a piece of oud music composed for our family, pro bono, by Charbel Rouhana — one of Lebanon's most respected oud masters. It plays only inside the app, only during cooking mode, and only with permission.
49 of the recipes are home cooking from Idlib province in Syria — to our knowledge the first dedicated English-language collection of that province's home dishes. Idlib has long been folded into pan-Syrian and Aleppo cookbooks; we wanted to surface it as its own kitchen.
How Faten gets paid, how attribution works, how we honour the home cooks behind these dishes — published openly inside the app under Settings, and at sofrabeirut.com/commitments. The economic model is part of the product, not behind a wall.
English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Farsi, Russian, Chinese. Full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Farsi. Brazilian Portuguese pricing localised for the largest Lebanese community outside Lebanon. Dearborn to São Paulo.
The Lebanese Mountains, the coast, the Bekaa Valley, the South — and the home cooks of Idlib, Syria, whose generations-old techniques we wanted to celebrate.
Every recipe is free to read, search, save, and cook. No paywall on the recipes themselves. Browse the whole library, learn everything, share it.
Unlock the full audio-narration experience, Faten's family memories, Charbel's oud music in cooking mode, offline access, and the AI cooking assistant.
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