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Beef brisket and date hummus from Philly Hummus Girl.
Beef brisket and date hummus from Philly Hummus Girl.Read moreHira Qureshi / Staff

Philly Hummus Girl

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Under the moniker Philly Hummus Girl chef Miranda Stephens makes bespoke meze spreads for special events and pop-ups. Stephen, who is Lebanese, views her hummus recipes as a tribute to her grandfather, a former chef with restaurants in Australia and the U.S. Stephen’s dips in particular have a reputation of their own: Her whipped labneh is swirled sticky sweet date syrup, for example, and her muhummara is swirled with pomegranate molasses.

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