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MI chef shares favorite Lebanese holiday dishes

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Chef Maureen Abood

If you’re looking to try out some new recipes this holiday season, Michigan chef and food writer Maureen Abood can give you some inspiration. She joins us to share some of her favorite things to cook this time of year.

A few years ago, writer and chef Maureen Abood quit her job in Chicago and moved to San Francisco to follow her passion and attend culinary school. Now, she has a cookbook called “Rose Water and Orange Blossoms,” and a blog by the same name, which she writes from her current home in East Lansing. Her work has been published in the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, just to name a few.

Current State talks with Maureen Abood about what she’s cooking during this holiday season.

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