This week’s Bite is a dish that many consider one of the most important dishes of Lebanon and its surrounding countries. Kibbeh is a combination of minced meat, onion, grains — often barley — and ...

When I lived in the Middle East, I learned that tender tabbouleh salad and crunchy fried kibbeh, the celebrated Levantine croquette, share a key ingredient: bulgur. Since ancient times, bulgur has ...

One type of appetizer, many different spellings. Kibbie, kibi, even quibe. Through migration and trade, kibbeh, a Middle Eastern meze standard, has integrated itself into the cuisines of Brazil, and ...

Dolly Awkar almost took kibbeh off the menu at her downtown Charleston restaurant. Though the delicately fried Lebanese bulgar wheat balls remained a hit among regulars and first-time visitors to ...

Editor's note: Times-Picayune photographer David Grunfeld tours the "12 under 12." David Grunfeld / The Times-Picayune Kibbeh is a carnivore's falafel. Kibbeh is a mixture of bulgur wheat, onions and ...

Torre Bagalman-Solazzo is known for her Italian cooking. And for good reason. With her husband and co-chef, David Solazzo, she opened Covington's Ristorante Del Porto in 2002. It remains one of the ...

Boston has a new, upscale Middle Eastern restaurant. It is the recently opened Al Wadi in West Roxbury, and it is most welcome. Al Wadi is owned by longtime South End restaurateurs Gus and Lena Samaha ...

There has been a longtime relationship between France and Lebanon, and in 1920, after World War I, Lebanon officially became a French colony. There’s still a strong bond between the countries and ...

A popular dish throughout the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean), kibbeh comes in a vast array of shapes and flavours — in Syria, Aleppo alone is said to have more than twenty different kinds. Best known ...