It's been raining all day. I've worked all day. There has been two mega demonstrations in town, one mourning Hariri and the other mourning Mughniyya, the Hizbullah guy who was car bombed in Damascus 2 days ago. There was at least one street battle in Beirut, under the house of my son's friend, near Sodeco. Their car got smashed and riddled with bullets and they had to hide for hours in the corridor, away from the windows.

So no blogging about food for today. I've lost my appetite.