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Rice and meat filling wrapped in a vine leaf, as served in Lebanese restaurants.

Rice and tomato filling wrapped in a vine leaf, as served in Lebanese restaurants.

Zucchini stuffed with rice, meat, pine nuts and parsley, and baked with sauce, as served in Lebanese restaurants.

Veal shin pieces cooked in a tomato and mushroom sauce, as served in Italian restaurants.

Slices of veal with ham, cheese, sage and wine, as served in Italian restaurants.

Commercially produced Greek style egg and cheese filling, enclosed in fillo pastry and baked.

Veal slices in a marsala-based sauce, as served in Italian restaurants.

Tomatoes stuffed with minced meat, rice and spices, then baked, as served in Greek restaurants.

Commercially produced Greek style cheese, spinach and egg filling enclosed in fillo pastry and baked.

A Lebanese style salad typically containing a mixture of parsley, bulgur, mint, tomato, onion, oil, a pinch of cinnamon and lemon juice, as purchased in Lebanese restaurants.