Health

Shocking Ingredient in Bread That’s Problematic for Jews and Muslims

You may be eating a dead person's hair in your commercially-baked bread. Watch out for L-cysteine if you're queasy. It’s name is inconspicuous enough, not...

Cousa Mahshi, Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini

A specialty of the Middle East, stuffed zukes are favorites with young and old. In a Tel Aviv supermarket, I watched a mother soothing her...

Liveinslums Brings Food to Life in Cairo’s City of the Dead

The City of the Dead in Cairo isn't known for its fertile soil, but Liveinslums is working to change that with an awesome mini...

Whole Eggs, the Whole Story on Vitamins

Eating only whites or buying Eggbeaters? Read more on the nutrients and benefits of whole eggs. (Above is Green Prophet's editor Karin Kloosterman a...

What You Should Know About Polio

Polio, a crippling virus which lingers in polluted water sources is not a dead virus, says an Israeli researcher. It is in Israel, Gaza...

Recipes: Got Argan Oil?

Now that you've bought some argan oil, what are you going to do with it? Argan oil has an intense, nutty flavor (we're speaking of...

Sheep’s tail fat alya is the ancient Middle-Eastern shmaltz

A Middle Eastern flavor that refuses to go out of style - sheep's tail fat. Some vegetable species thrive in harsh, arid conditions and still...

Argan Oil: Expert Estimates About 20,000 Trees in Israel

Nah, nobody does that goat thing anymore... Our recent post about Israeli argan oil caused a few ripples over the Internet. While we now know...

Argan Oil Now Produced in Israel

Much of Morocco's argan oil still comes from nuts excreted by goats. The fabulously expensive oil is now produced in Israel - without goat...

Tahini Fuels the Countries that Fuel the World!

Maimonides, a Jewish scholar, prescribed tahini almost 1,000 years ago. It's a calcium food for vegans. When my friend Elia consulted her doctor complaining of...

Preserving olives the natural, fermented way

This Syrian olive tree is loaded with fruit, most of which will fall to the ground, unpicked. The autumn olive harvest is still in full...

Choose The Best Olives for Pickling

Learn how to buy olives in the market and then how to salt and ferment them.

Middle East Meat Consumption Rises With World Demand

Rising meat demand, rising risks in the Middle East: antibiotics, meat glue and global warming. World meat consumption is on the rise and this is...

Actually, We Can Feed 10 Billion People. Here’s How

Even though it seems like the earth couldn't possibly handle 10 billion people, an article published in Nature shows that it is possible to...

Eden Vardy Plants a Sustainable T.R.E.E. in Aspen

A sustainable T.R.E.E. grows in Aspen, where children learn about real food. As a child, Israeli-born Eden Vardy wanted to know where his food came...

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