If you ask me, the heart of any city’s food scene isn’t tucked away in white-tablecloth restaurants — it’s sizzling away on street corners, market stalls, and food carts.

The couple behind Mid East Eats cooks to survive, remember, and resist, serving ancestral foods like falafel, hummus, fatayer, and manoushe. In an L.A. twist, there are also tacos and nachos.

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