first up, tabbouleh, a salad made of bulgur wheat, parsley, and tomatoes. it's found all over the middle east, but the lebanese version is special. >> in lebanon they use spices in it. it has cinnamon, seven-spice mixture, pepper... and you know the thing about cinnamon? in the old days it used to be considered an aphrodisiac. >> wasn't everything? [both laugh] >> and the concubines in the harem used to rub themselves with cinnamon bark before the sultan came to visit them. >> [laughs] >> but, you know, they should have... all of them smeled of cinnamon. i don't know which one he chose and how he chose them, but apparently it was a real turn on. >> tomatoes were only added to the recipe when the spaniards introduced them in the 16th century to europe and the old world. and this is always in tabbouleh, isn't it, tomato? >> always, and not peeled, not seeded, nothing. you know, you use the whole thing. well, also because you want it to crunch, and you don't want it to be too soft. >> we throw in the bulgur wheat, but just a handful. >> aphrodisiac. >> the cin