The artisan cheesemaker Nabil Khoury in his workshop in Addoussieh, South Lebanon, in August 2026. (Credit: Rayanne Tawil/L’Orient-Le Jour)
"I really had enough of moving around and doing a thousand things," Nabil Khoury says, setting a sincere tone from the very first moments, all while checking the temperature of a milk vat in his Dry & Raw workshop. He moves calmly and without losing focus from one vat to another. With steady hands, he sets a timer, checks a pecorino wheel under the press, then returns to the pasteurizer. The factory is clean and orderly. Behind the glass windows, banana plantations stretch out to the sea. Inside, everything is stainless steel, white light, and precision. The entrepreneur with many hats likes things this way. "For me," he says, satisfied as he looks around, "this place looks like a clinic."It’s hard in this sterile setting to imagine his "previous" life. After trying his hand at professional...
"I really had enough of moving around and doing a thousand things," Nabil Khoury says, setting a sincere tone from the very first moments, all while checking the temperature of a milk vat in his Dry & Raw workshop. He moves calmly and without losing focus from one vat to another. With steady hands, he sets a timer, checks a pecorino wheel under the press, then returns to the pasteurizer. The factory is clean and orderly. Behind the glass windows, banana plantations stretch out to the sea. Inside, everything is stainless steel, white light, and precision. The entrepreneur with many hats likes things this way. "For me," he says, satisfied as he looks around, "this place looks like a clinic."It’s hard in this sterile setting to imagine his "previous" life. After trying his hand at professional...
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