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Bouza and beyond: Lebanon’s long-standing love affair with ice cream

Now a universal fun food, historians believe ice cream initially made its way to Europe from the Middle East.

Bouza and beyond: Lebanon’s long-standing love affair with ice cream

Ashta ice cream and the Bouzet Salem sign, in Kousba, northern Lebanon. (Credit: Eliane Haykal/L'Orient Today)

It is a hot August day in Naccache, a neighborhood north of Beirut, and people of all ages are pouring into Le Flocon, a local ice cream shop that has occupied a busy street corner since 2017. Cones and cups fly around as patrons chat and enjoy...
It is a hot August day in Naccache, a neighborhood north of Beirut, and people of all ages are pouring into Le Flocon, a local ice cream shop that has occupied a busy street corner since 2017. Cones and cups fly around as patrons chat and enjoy...