Suzy Karadsheh is the founder and CEO of the Mediterranean Dish, an online resource for wholesome and approachable Mediterranean recipes.
Karadsheh was born and raised in Port Said, Egypt, where she learned about Mediterranean food firsthand, shopping the local market with her father, and cooking at home with her mother.
Currently, Karadsheh lives in Alpharetta, with her husband and two daughters, and she shoots her site’s lively videos in the family’s kitchen.
“I started it in 2014, more as a hobby, just to have a place to collect recipes for my two daughters,” Karadsheh said. “I was in between jobs, and we were moving for my husband’s job. I came from fundraising and PR, and I had been working full time for many years. In 2016, when we landed here in Atlanta, I picked up a camera and started to learn food photography, and decided I was going to do this thing for a while.”
By 2018, the Mediterranean Dish was an internet hit, and, because so many of her followers were looking for good quality Mediterranean ingredients, Karadsheh launched an online shop.
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“Now we have our own line of products for olive oils, spices, grains and things of that nature, to help people cook the Mediterranean way,” Karadsheh said. “The heart of the whole thing is that we want to serve that need for people who are looking to cook flavorful meals that are healthy and are not hard to make.”
With more people cooking at home during the pandemic, traffic on the site nearly doubled, so Karadsheh added a live “Happy Hour Cook-Along,” which airs at 5 p.m. Tuesdays on Instagram and Facebook.
“I feel like it’s become a community, and a place for people to come, and have a drink, and cook and connect on a human level,” she said.
Karadsheh also has secured a contract with Clarkson Potter for a Mediterranean cookbook that is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2022.
“We don’t have an official title yet,” she said, “but I think it will be ‘The Mediterranean Dish.’”
Mediterranean Baked White Fish
Loaded with bright Mediterranean flavors, this baked white fish is seasoned with oregano and garlic, and topped with a mixture of tomatoes, olives and red onions. You can watch a video of Suzy Karadsheh making it at themediterraneandish.com/baked-white-fish-recipe.
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