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The Cook Up with Adam Liaw airs weeknights on SBS Food at 7.00pm and 10.00pm, or stream it free on SBS On Demand. Watch Carrol and Sharon on episodes 17, 49 and 88. -
How to entertain family and friends was something that sisters Carol and Sharon Salloum learnt before they could even read or write. The hardworking duo are proud owners of their Syrian-inspired restaurant, Almond Bar, located in Darlinghurst, an inner suburb of Sydney in NSW.
Motivated by their family s passion for food and how it unites people, the pair wanted to create a place where guests could feel as if they were dining with family. The menu features authentic, modern Middle Eastern cuisine, including many of the dishes that they grew up eating. Almond Bar is soon to celebrate its 15th birthday and the sisters attribute much of their restaurant s success to the hard work ethic they developed from the dinner table.
Winter’s blast of misery brings out Dallas’ big philanthropic heart
Local charities say the immediate outpouring of support was unlike anything they’ve experienced before.
Burst pipes damaged one of The Family Place s transitional housing apartments where moms and kids live for up to one year.(Courtesy of the Family Place)
In all her years of fundraising, Family Place CEO Paige Flink has never experienced anything like Dallas’ rallying spirit during the February storms. And she hopes she never needs it again.
Flink was sitting at her kitchen table command center when she sent a desperate tweet early in the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 16. The Family Place’s shelter was without power, 123 women and children were freezing, and the sprinkler system was about to burst. Pleading for help, she tagged city, county and state officials.