{"podcast":{"title":"Out Of Office: A Travel Podcast","slug":"out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743","podcast_index_feed_id":629743,"rss_url":"https://outofofficepod.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.outofofficepod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/6/6/d/d66d608b6bc46b49/ooo_lowres.jpg","author":"Ryan Davis","episode_count":200,"summary":"Out of Office is a travel podcast hosted by us, Ryan Davis and Kiernan Schmitt. From early childhood, we were each infected with a serious case of wanderlust (among other things.) We define travel broadly, from local day trips to high-flyin' overseas adventures. Every episode, we dig into one topic—ranging from the serious to the silly, the practical to the outlandish—and give advice on how to get out there and explore the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T04:17:49.898081+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743"},"episode":{"title":"The Foods of Lebanon with Anissa Helou","slug":"the-foods-of-lebanon-with-anissa-helou","published_at":"2026-06-16T13:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/the-foods-of-lebanon-with-anissa-helou","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743","url":"https://outofofficepod.libsyn.com/the-foods-of-lebanon-with-anissa-helou","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/outofofficepod/Out_of_Office_Episode_227_REVISED.mp3?dest-id=782160","summary":"This week on \"Out of Office: A Travel Podcast,\" Kiernan chats with one of our all-time favorite guests—food writer and researcher Anissa Helou. She's just published \"Lebanon: Cooking the Foods of My Homeland\" and spills the secrets of tabbouleh, falafel, skewered meat, hummus, labneh, and many other Lebanese specialities. Things We Talk About in This Episode: Anissa's last interview with us https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast/id1438098925 \"Lebanon: Cooking the Foods of My Homeland\" https://bookshop.org/p/books/lebanon-cooking-the-foods-of-my-homeland-anissa-helou/77fff24da4bf58f4?ean=9780063334922&next=t Pope Leo at the Sagrada Familia https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/world/europe/pope-leo-sagrada-familia-barcelona-visit.html","meta_description":"This week on \"Out of Office: A Travel Podcast,\" Kiernan chats with one of our all-time favorite guests—food writer and researcher Anissa Helou. She's just…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2882,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/episodes/the-foods-of-lebanon-with-anissa-helou/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/the-foods-of-lebanon-with-anissa-helou.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}