Spuds in Beirut…

When I was leaving my martial arts class tonight in Beirut (having worked up an appetite), I felt pulled in the direction of this Mobile Potato Bar. After today’s bombing, I thought, what better comfort food could there be than fresh-baked spuds? Later, when I returned home, I learned that rockets from Syria were falling on northern Lebanon. More and more, it feels like Lebanon is quickly becoming the center of the Middle East’s sectarian wars…