Kamal Mouzawak, founder of\u00a0Beirut\u2019s\u00a0first farmers\u2019 market and regarded as\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s\u00a0most prominent food activist, has been named the winner of the Foodics Icon Award as part of\u00a0MENA\u2019s\u00a050 Best Restaurants awards. Mouzawak will be presented with the award at the inaugural edition of\u00a0MENA\u2019s\u00a050 Best Restaurants, taking place in\u00a0Abu Dhabi\u00a0on\u00a07th February 2022. In presenting this accolade, the 50 Best organisation honours outstanding figures in the food sector in the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0and\u00a0North Africa\u00a0region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of Mouzawak\u2019s vision to promote small-scale farmers, producers and sustainable agriculture, he founded\u00a0Beirut\u2019s\u00a0first farmers\u2019 market, Souk El Tayeb,\u00a0to celebrate and preserve foods and traditions that unite communities in Lebanon.\u00a0The souk spawned Mouzawak\u2019s first restaurant, Tawlet, where each day a different female cook sets the menu with dishes from her respective region, introducing patrons to the diversity of Lebanese food traditions through home cuisine. Since Tawlet Beirut opened in 2009, Mouzawak has launched five more restaurants, providing employment opportunities for women across the country. Mouzawak is also recognised as a culinary activist for his advocacy of sustainable and humane food production systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
William Drew, Director of Content for 50 Best, comments: \u201cKamal Mouzawak\u2019s contribution\u00a0to\u00a0elevating\u00a0the\u00a0slow food movement\u00a0in\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0as well\u00a0as\u00a0preserving\u00a0the culture of sustainable agriculture through Souk El Tayeb and his Tawlet concept is truly inspirational. The impact he has had on food communities through his vision of preserving\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s\u00a0rich culinary heritage and identity makes him a most worthy recipient of this award.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past eighteen years, Souk El Tayeb has evolved from a weekly farmers\u2019 market\u00a0into a food movement, adding\u00a0educational programmes in local schools and food festivals. Matbakh El Kell, an initiative that began as an emergency kitchen in response to the catastrophic explosion in\u00a0Beirut\u00a0to serve meals to food-insecure families across the city, is Mouzawak\u2019s most recent venture. The success of one of Souk El Tayeb\u2019s concepts, the farmers\u2019 exchange programme, which connects\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s\u00a0farmers with international investor networks, is now enabling Mouzawak to expand the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kamal Mouzawak, founder of\u00a0Beirut\u2019s\u00a0first farmers\u2019 market and regarded as\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s\u00a0most prominent food activist, has been named the winner of the Foodics Icon Award as part of\u00a0MENA\u2019s\u00a050 Best Restaurants awards. Mouzawak will be presented with the award at the inaugural edition of\u00a0MENA\u2019s\u00a050 Best Restaurants, taking place in\u00a0Abu Dhabi\u00a0on\u00a07th February 2022. In presenting this accolade, the 50 Best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14289,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}