Kibbeh Recipe Recipe
Kibbeh is one of the stalwarts of Levantine cooking, and comes in as many versions as there are towns or people who make it.
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Elite coffee uses leftover beans to power factor
The Israeli town of Tsfat (or Safed) is typically associated with the colour blue, owing to the tint that many of its buildings are painted with. But modern Tsfat, famous for being a centre of Jewish mysticism, its graves of tsadikim and art galleries, could just as easily be associated with brown. Since 1956, Israel’s […]
Taking on Middle Eastern Classics: Baba Ganoush Recipe
Last week with our recipe for the Syrian dip muhamarra, we embarked on a perilous culinary adventure: trying to recreate authentic versions of classic Middle Eastern dishes. Why perilous? Well, my grandmother and grandfather couldn’t, between the two of them, agree on the best way to make charoset. Trying to come up with a recipe […]
Muhamarra: the addictive red pepper and walnut spread from Syria
Winter cooking is often pantry cooking. When the rain is coming down at a 45° angle, the last thing most of us want to do is brave the elements to make a grocery run. It’s handy to have a stash of recipes that rely on what you already have in the cupboard – and conversely, […]
Dianne Onstad's Whole Foods Companion, A Charming and Chock-Full Book
With winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get cozy with a pile of books. The latest in our eco-reads book review series is a great food and cooking reference – the Whole Foods Companion. Whole Foods Companion is a dip-your-toe-in book rather than a cover-to-cover book: it’s great for delving into when […]
Musings on the Environment and "Where Things Come From" In Vietnam
Today’s guest post comes by way of my friend Tania Guenter, who I met years ago when she was living in Tel Aviv. The world-traveling writer, from New Zealand, shares her green and not-so-green experiences with Green Prophet while in Vietnam. There are standard rules they put in almost every hotel in Vietnam. My favourite […]
Formula should not be baby’s first gift
Soft drinks. Fast foods. Cigarettes. Companies that market these products are well-known for targeting children and teens in order to develop “brand loyalty.” But the campaign to capture the taste buds of future consumers begins even earlier–in the hospital nursery, where formula companies use aggressive methods to ensure that babies’ first taste of artificial milk […]
BotanoCap Delivers Pest-Fighting Essential Oils To Make "Organic" Standard Practice
The chemical pesticides used in modern agriculture and in the home are poisoning our planets’ animal life, waterways and ecosystems. They enter our bodies, and can even affect unborn children. Helping humanity break from this nasty cycle of destruction is an Israeli company, BotanoCap. The company envisions a future where organic produce will be the […]
Bactochem Barcodes Your Organic Beef With DNA Databank
How do you really know that the beef you bought is organic, kosher, halal, or raised with loving kindness? The Israeli company Bactochem has the solution. The idea started in Israel, where animal theft has become a major concern. Hundreds of beef cows worth $2,000 a head are being stolen a year, and in most […]
Nagaya Organic Gifts: Give the Gift of Sustainability
What could be a more thoughtful gift than a gift that’s organic? Giving someone an organic gift shows not only that you care about their personal health and well-being, but that you care about the future of their environment and world. Overall, an organic gift is a gift of love. Unfortunately, unique organic gifts aren’t […]
Carlo Petrini's Slow Food, A Review
Slow Food has been garnering lots of attention lately, with an international convention in San Francisco in September and another in Italy just this week. It seems like the perfect time to pull out the Slow Food anthology, this week’s entry in our eco-reads review series. ‘Slow Food’ is one of those elusive yet still […]
How to Keep Carrots Crispy for Weeks – A Sustainable Guide
Have you ever found that your carrots become limp and rot after just a few days, no matter how you store them? Instead of letting them go to waste, try this simple, sustainable method to keep them fresh for weeks—even up to a month!
Keeping Your Greens
Have you ever had trouble keeping your spices longer than a day? If you leave them out they dry out, if you keep them in a bag they rot… what to do? You can keep your aromatics (leafy spices) and salad lettuce leaves fresh for longer by washing them, then wrap them is a paper […]
Winemaking In Israel – A Sweet Ecuatorial Spot For The Ancient Tradition
(Israeli winemaker Golan Flam inspects his wine) This is a guest post by Israeli wine expert Richard Sheffer from Israel Wine Direct. Last week he talked about the connection between wine, man and the land. This week he talks a little more about the history of wine: In spite of what some Californians believe, wine […]