Meet miranda

Philly Hummus Girl

Hi! I'm Miranda Stephen, founder of Philly Hummus Girl!

I started Philly Hummus Girl out of my own kitchen right here in Philly, making mezze to raise donations for the Lebanese Red Cross. My cooking is rooted in my Lebanese heritage. My grandfather, Fredrick Jabbour Stephen, was a chef from Kfarsghab, Lebanon who spent many years cooking in Sydney, Australia before landing in Philadelphia, unknowingly paving the path I follow today.

I'm a self-taught chef, and in 2024 I took what had been cooking for friends and turned it into a business. Since then, as Philly Hummus Girl, I was voted “Best Chef” in the Philadelphia Inquirer's Philly Faves by over 40,000 readers, featured in Edible Philly, and selected for the first Inquirer's Food Festival.

You can enjoy my cooking at pop-ups, farmers markets, and special events, whether that's a market table, a catering spread, or a menu built for one night only. You'll find the traditional dishes I grew up on alongside ones that are unmistakably mine, built from every place I've called home along the way.

When not in the kitchen, you'll likely spot me in the Italian Market scouring for the next best ingredient, or cooped up at home with my three cats.