Kate Leahy

Serve this dish of mashed beans wrapped in flatbread and pan-fried until crisp as a appetizer, or alongside a big green salad for lunch or dinner.

This lavash recipe makes a forgiving dough that can bend to your schedule: You can make the first step and the final product in about 6 hours, or you can spread the work out over the course of a couple days.

Served with a side of plain jasmine rice, chicken kebat is Burmese home cooking at its simplest.

A spiedo is a kitchen spit over an open fire that is most often used for cooking whole animals, particularly chicken. Spiedino—;literally "little spit"—refers to food cooked on skewers, which is how we like to prepare pork loin. Grilled briefly over a smoky fire, the meat takes on an addictive char that counterbalances the sweet, mellow soffritto of pine nuts, garlic, and currants.