'People realised this was going to be a long game. 'There was definitely a need for people to eat, especially in the beginning when it was super -busy,' Kehdy says. Bethany Kehdy, author of cookbook The Jewelled Kitchen and founder of tour company Taste Lebanon, has been working with Regenerate Lebanon since it popped up during the first weeks of protests in the country in October. They are run by volunteers and together churn out hundreds of meals every day.
Regenerate Lebanon and Matbakh El Balad are two such kitchens. It's tiring work that requires sustenance, and this has come in the form of soup kitchens. T housands of protesters have taken to the streets in Beirut during the past two months, marching against the political elite th at demonstrators say is a corrupt group that mismanaged the country's finances to cause the worst economic downturn Lebanon has suffered in decades.
