Laila Gohar hosts a bean party to set the pulse racing

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I grew up in a terracotta house with bottle-green windows in a leafy neighbourhood along the Nile in Cairo. There was a giant pomegranate tree right outside the door that would burst with little ruby-red crowns each year. Every Friday, I would go to the farmers’ market with my father. I knew the sight of the red on the pomegranate tree meant that the beans you…