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Cooking for 25,000

For over 30 years, “always on the weekend following Mother’s Day,” Richmond has been the place where you could spend three days profusely consuming delicious Lebanese cuisine while enjoying Lebanese music and dance.

This year’s Lebanese Food Festival held at St. Anthony’s Maronite Catholic Church proved just as successful as earlier events.

To a ten-acre site in Glen Allen, 20,000 to 25,000 people came to dine on foods that have been influenced by a rich culture and passed down generation to generation over many years. The gracious hospitality that comes with it is just a way of life. Shish kabobs with rice; grape leaves stuffed with meat and rice; meat, cheese and spinach pies; beef or chicken shawarma (sandwiches), and assorted Lebanese sweets, mentioning a very few, were available for purchase. Lebanese wine and beer were on hand to make the dining a little more elegant. Following Lebanese custom, they are usually consumed after the meal.

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