Beirut in the 1960’s, where Elaine was a radio DJ
You might have fresh fruit. Sweets are for when people come to visit – you offer that to them with a cup of coffee, it’s like an afternoon tea or something like that.
Yes, the Tyrian purple is the same colour as the pomegranate. It dates back to the coloured dye, called Tyrian purple, first used by the Phoenicians as early as 1600 BC. And this colour was invented by the inhabitants of the ancient city of Tyre, which
Well speaking of fruits, can I say, the cover of this book is the first thing that arrests your eye... The front cover has the most extraordinary photo of a pomegranate that has been split open at the front, and then there’s a whole fruit behind – and there’s an incredible story in relation to the colour of pomegranate that goes way back in Lebanese tradition.
is located about 80 kilometres from Beirut.
And where that saying, which I think has gone global – of being in the purple, that whole sense of everything going well, you’re facing prosperity...