10 Olive Varieties You Love To Eat
10 popular olive varieties, and a recipe for marinating them.
Miriam Kresh
Miriam Kresh is an American ex-pat living in Israel. Her love of Middle Eastern food evolved from close friendships with enthusiastic Moroccan, Tunisian and Turkish home cooks.
She owns too many cookbooks and is always planning the next meal.
Miriam can be reached at miriam (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
The Olive, Its History
The history and legends of the noble olive.
Vertical Forests, A Practical Design For Humanizing Cities Again
What on earth is a vertical forest? It’s a forest that doesn’t grow on the earth. It grows in troughs placed on the balconies of residential buildings, hotels, and parks, making huge urban green spaces that don’t take up ground space, but rise skyward. Today’s overcrowded, denatured, polluted cities are only waiting for them. They […]
5 Ways To Use Air-Conditioner Water
Ever considered using the drip water from your air conditioning unit? Here are 5 reasons why you should.
Vertical Cemeteries are a Modern Catacomb in Jerusalem
Jerusalem's new subterranean cemetery is providing a solution to the problem of where to bury people nowadays.
Organic Panna Cotta Recipe
Light, creamy panna cotta is a perfect way to finish off a summer meal. Garnish the pudding with berries or sliced fruit.
5 Important Reasons To Air Your House Out
Improve the quality of the air you breathe by ventilating your home and office environment.
Ashkelon’s Sand Sculpture Festival Brings International Artists To Its Beaches
International sand sculpture artists have arrived in Ashkelon to create magical figures from sand.
Israeli Startup SG Tech Manufactures Clean Energy From Cow Patties
Israeli startup SG Tech created a technology that creates energy and fuel from cow patties, with almost no residual waste.
Khirret, A Vanishing Iraqi Sweet Made from Cattails
Khirret is still made in southern Iraq and other parts of the Middle East, but it's appreciated for its rarity, rather than a sweet that stands in competition with commercial candies.
Surprising Reasons Why Cities Need More Shade
Urban dwellers need more shade. A recent Israeli report explains why.
Bread Baked With 5000-Year-Old Egyptian Yeast
A curious physicist revived 5000-year-old yeast and baked delicious bread from it.
Basil Bread Recipe
My basil plant now wants to reproduce, flowering almost from one day to the next. To keep it from going leggy, I pinch off the flowering tops and harvest yet more leaves. My answer to the basil overflow problem is to bake green bread.
11 Essential Oils Your Medicine Cabinet Needs
Ten essential oils for everyday use - from the kitchen to the bedroom.
Make Delicious Pea Pod Wine
Use up the pods left over from shelling peas and beans to make - wine!
Millenials Snap Up Houseplants To Relieve Stress
The millenial generation has discovered houseplant love.
Should You Be Eating Diatomaceous Earth?
Is eating diatomaceous earth good, bad, or indifferent for health? Green Prophet investigates.
Keep Clear Of Germs and Wash Your Hands
Most of us have been taught to wash our hands since early childhood. But the hand hygiene we were taught can be improved. Especially now during summer vacation when we spend more time out of our own friendly-germ environment and possibly traveling, it makes sense to follow sensible precautions. When do you wash hands? Naturally, […]
One Of The World’s Oldest Mosques Excavated In The Negev
The rocky brown soil of the Negev desert suggests an empty environment, but recent excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority have brought to light an ancient mosque from the 7th-8th centuries CE there. It’s one of the earliest known mosques in the world, a surprising find in the area. Dr. Jon Seligman and Shahar Zur, […]
Can You Cook With CBD Oil?
The most popular reason to use the oil is for pain management, a boon to people suffering from arthritis, fibromyalgia and joint pain from trauma. It's also a popular alternative medicine product said to reduce anxiety and depression, improve sleep quality, and relieve the symptoms of neurological ailments such as epilepsy and movement disorders.
Enormous Neolithic Site Near Jerusalem Reveals 9000-Year-Old Secrets
Conventional thought among archaeologists was that Neolithic people didn’t settle in the area around the Judean Hills. Yet Motza, 5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, was always within easy distance of fresh water from the Sorek river, and near good agricultural ground. A trail coming from the southern foothills allowed access to traders and emigrants. All […]
Mouth-Watering Vegetarian Burgul Balls in Garlicky Yogurt Sauce
This recipe actually brought water to my mouth even as I was reading it through. Then I cooked these spicy bulgur balls and set the platter on the table. The family and guests simply snarfed it up; not a scrap left. This bit of Turkish home cuisine is called Arap Koftesi, and I discovered it […]
NASA suggests these plants in your home to live longer
Back in 1989, NASA did a joint two-year study with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America on how to clean the air in entirely sealed environments, that is, spaceships. They concluded that to maintain good air quality inside a spaceship, astronauts should grow living plants to absorb and synthesize pollutants, in effect “scrubbing” the air. These are the plants they suggest.
Bible-Era Dye Factory Discovered in Northern Israel
Terracotta vats and vessels stained purple from the fabulous dyes of the Bible era were excavated 50 years ago at the site of Tel Shikmona, south of Haifa. But no further studies were done on the Iron-Age findings. The pottery sat gathering even more dust on storehouse shelves at Haifa University. History waited to be […]
Ozlem’s Turkish Table cookbook for everyday and festivals: Our Review
It’s not a book for beginning cooks, but no recipe is really difficult to manage. For example, baklava might seem intimidating to make, but with filo pastry from the supermarket, a careful cook can easily produce a trayful of that exotic sweet from this book.
