The Food Heritage Foundation

The Food Heritage Foundation (FHF) is a non-profit organization aiming at the conservation of Lebanon’s collective memory and indigenous knowledge through the preservation, documentation and revival of Lebanon’s traditional food heritage. It seeks to create jobs for the Lebanese rural population, namely women and small producers, by reviving the market for healthy home-cooked local cuisine and local products and establishing permanent linkages between urban communities and rural producers through activities and programs that promote food heritage. The foundation was conceived in 2005 at the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and became an independent registered entity in 2013.