Issam Sabagh, Phoenicia Gourmet Restaurant
Lebanese American cultural influence include: Kibbeeis ground lamb meat mixed with bulgur wheat and eaten either baked or raw. Yellow and green squash, called koosa, are hollowed out, stuffed with rice and ground lamb meat, and cooked in a tomato sauce and baqlawa, which is filo dough laced with sugar syrup and wrapped around finely chopped walnuts and