{"id":882,"date":"2024-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/local-business-spotlight-byblos-market\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T00:17:56","slug":"local-business-spotlight-byblos-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/local-business-spotlight-byblos-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Business Spotlight: Byblo&#8217;s Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>Saad started Byblos Market at Burnside Hub six years ago. He arrived in Australia from Lebanon in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>Today he continues to run the store, employing his 19 year old son and other staff to service the increasing numbers of customers coming in to get their groceries.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>Mandarins, oranges and apples are currently in season, sourced from Melbourne Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market in Epping.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>Saad also recommends <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW94853314 BCX2\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jujube\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: inherit;\" target=\"_blank\"><u>jujubes<\/u><\/a>, a little-known fruit in Australia that, like Byblos Market, takes its name from the Greek language.><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike a red date, they\u2019re new in the market and some of our European customers, they know \u2013 when they see them, they love them,\u201d Saad said.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>The Market is named after the Lebanese city Byblos, perched on a sandstone cliff about 40 km North of the capital Beirut by car.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p><The Greek name of the Lebanese town became the source of the English word \u201cBible.\u201d Byblos was a place where papyrus was exported. The city name influenced the name of the material and the religious text known as \u201cthe papyrus book.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>Byblos was settled in the Neolithic era, around 10,000 years ago, when humans began to use agricultural techniques.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>The city is said to have been originally founded by fishermen and remains one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in the world.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saad started Byblos Market at Burnside Hub six years ago. He arrived in Australia from Lebanon in the early 2000s&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}