{"id":1698,"date":"2010-11-11T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2010-11-11T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:44:00","slug":"i-knew-i%e2%80%99d-have-to-go-to-edgware-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"I Knew I\u2019d Have to Go to Edgware&nbsp;Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 11th November 2010<br \/>\nI knew I\u2019d have to go to Edgware Road, miles away  &#8211; as soon as I saw it was Lebanese. Labneh, that is. It\u2019s strained yoghurt.<br \/>\nBut still I dragged against my fate.<br \/>\nI\u2019d been hurtled by Ottolenghi, needless to say, into an unfamiliar recipe for my dinner last Saturday. Sea bass with labneh, preserved lemon and tomato salsa.<br \/>\nI tried Borough Market, a restaurant near Borough Market and two other local shops. \u2018Are you Lebanese?\u2019 I demanded of the bewildered owners. It was hopeless, as I\u2019d known really all along it would be. There was no avoiding it. I must embrace Edgware Road, where the Lebanese shops are.<br \/>\nI could have made do with ordinary yoghurt; Borough Market had yielded up preserved lemons at least (there\u2019s a big drama with Borough Market, by the way; essentially it\u2019s been replaced).<br \/>\nOn the other hand, I absolutely could not \u2013 make do, that is.<br \/>\nSo I gained Edgware Road, the Marble Arch end. Luckily I knew that, because it\u2019s ten miles long. I forged into a likely looking store. Yes, they\u2019d got labneh. I had a religious moment. But there was more stoniness to come. In the fridge, they said, on the left. I faced rows of milky products  labelled in Arabic. Which was it? I asked another assistant who mumbled that labneh\u2019s a drink but handed me a pot of solid-looking white stuff, beaming in a curiously irrelevant way. I couldn\u2019t have been less convinced but I was too polite not to buy it, hatching a plot the while to try another shop. \u2018What is this?\u2019 I asked, in the other shop, wielding the Arabic product. \u2018It\u2019s labneh,\u2019 they said, \u2018but very cheap.\u2019  I bought some of theirs, more expensive.<br \/>\nSo I was double-labneh. It\u2019s quite nice.<br \/>\nWhat an adventure though, going to Edgware Road.  It\u2019s very exotic, just as if you were actually in Lebanon.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1700\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/001-562x750.jpg\" alt=\"Cheap Labneh - What How do You Know? \" title=\"001\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/001-562x750.jpg 562w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/001.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheap Labneh - What How do You Know? <\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 11th November 2010 I knew I\u2019d have to go to Edgware Road, miles away &#8211; as soon as I saw it was Lebanese. Labneh, that is. It\u2019s strained yoghurt. But still I dragged against my fate. I\u2019d been hurtled by Ottolenghi, needless to say, into an unfamiliar recipe for my dinner last Saturday. 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