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Article: Arak.(liquor)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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POEMS WERE WRITTEN ABOUT IT, songs sung about its silky flavour and some connoisseurs even compared it to a beautiful woman. Chilled by war and torn apart by sectarian strife, arak, one of Lebanon's most prized leisure drinks, degenerated into nothing but a crude hangover-inducing fire-liquid. But now the arak of old is back, its renaissance partly spearheaded by two brothers, Sami and Ramzi Ghosn, who returned to Zabbugha village in the Lebanese Mountains where they--jointly with other Christian villagers--revived the production of what was once considered Lebanon's 'nectar fit for a king'.
"There are drinks to get you drunk and there are drinks to be ...