Wandering out of Beirut’s bars or clubs, perhaps feeling a bit merry from one too many drinks, you have a number of options for where to get late-night grub. But …
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The Lebanese do not have a good record when it comes to the environment. There are few facilities for disposing of your waste in an environmentally-friendly manner, and those that …
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It’s truly a family business,” says Mary Helene Gougeon, describing Villa Clara, a restaurant and boutique hotel in Mar Mkhayel she owns with her husband, Olivier Gougeon. With Olivier, a …
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When your meal is served at a wedding or when you grab a canapé at a cocktail reception, you do not often stop to think of what happened behind the …
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"For a situation like ours we do need scandals,” says Zeina Kassaify, head of the Lebanon Association for Food Safety (LAFS). The uncovering of caches of expired products in warehouses, …
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The problem with opening a restaurant that pleases everyone’s palate and becomes one of the city’s institutions is that if you try to do it again, you have set the …
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Patchi International (Patchi), the family owned Lebanon-based chocolatier with operations in over 29 countries, is planning to offer up to 49 percent of its ownership to a strategic partner in …
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“Yemen is on the verge of a true, deep humanitarian disaster,” were the words late last month of Geert Cappelaere, representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the …
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Last month the cabinet endorsed a measure to allow for price controls on food products that would assign levels of “acceptable profits,” according the Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan. The …