Zaatar

The green-brown powder made from salt, sumac, sesame seeds, and the dried leaves of various herbs known as zaatar and other ingredients depending on region. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Certainly, I remember that he and I would gleefully refer to "that bread" in conversations on the way home (we didn't know it was called zaatar manouche until years later). ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was working double time, stretching the elastic rounds of bread with his enormous hands, buttering them with olive oil and zaatar, laying them out on long wooden paddles, and shoveling them into the roaring hot oven all at once. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

While they ground the zaatar leaves and roasted the sesame seeds, the village ladies drank many cups of coffee and tea, and traded in much vital gossip—some of it, I had no doubt, about her nephew Mohamad and his American wife. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

She also sprinkles fairy dust on the children, consisting of turmeric and zaatar. ❋ Wajahat Ali (2011)

“We have zaatar, we have burghul; we can live for two months.” ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

And the women spent two days making zaatar, the pungent greenish-brown powder that they made with salt, sumac, sesame seeds, and the dried leaves of wild Syrian oregano also called zaatar, confusingly enough, and universally mistranslated as “thyme”. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Most Beirut neighborhoods have a furn, a communal bread oven where people gather in the mornings and early afternoon to get freshly baked manaeesh: crisp little pizzas topped with zaatar, cheese, ground beef or lamb, or spicy Armenian sausage, to name just a few incarnations. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

I recommend feta cheese, sliced bell peppers, avocado, and zaatar. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

“Simplicity is a virtue,” a Lebanese restaurateur told me once, watching in horror as I piled one ingredient after another—zaatar, cheese, green onions, red pepper, sesame seeds—onto my manoushi. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Roasted red pepper, olive, zaatar and fresh basil (recommended: hummus on whole wheat everything) ❋ Unknown (2010)

A sandwich of Arabic flatbread wrapped around labneh and cucumber, zaatar, cheese, or other fillings. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Aunt Nahla made eleven pounds of zaatar every year. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Before sprinkling za'atar on your [pita bread], [brush it] with some [olive oil]... ❋ Pita (2004)

In Lebanon, they eat pizza with [zaatar], they call it: man'ouché. After clubbing every Saturday, we have breakfast at [Zaatar] w [Zeit] before [heading back] home. ❋ Rana Wakim (2006)

[I eat] zaatar with [my bread]. ❋ John Smith (2004)