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Make Low-Sugar, Smooth Ice Cream fit for Hot Summer Days

Make your own healthy summer ice cream

Sourdough Part II: Care and Feeding Of The Starter

Baking sourdough bread can be a pleasure, but a bit like owning a pet. Miriam continues the series on baking great sourdough bread and...

Unregulated Diet Pills Raise Health Concerns in the Middle East

Not yet into the organic food craze of America, the thin craze is taking over the Middle East as sedentary women pop pills to...

Sourdough Bread Recipe: Part I – Make the Starter

You can bake a sourdough corn bread like this, too. our 4-part series on baking with sourdough starts here. People have relied on wild yeasts...

"Eat What You Want to Conserve" Says Arab-American Writer Gary Nabhan

Put your mouth where your morals are and eat the plants and vegetables you want to conserve. Image via ivanwalsh Since the beginning of the...

Gat, The Middle-East’s Bad Habit

Miriam interviews store owners who sell legally addictive substances: soft drinks, cigarettes, junk snacks  - and Gat. Some folks chew gum. A lot of...

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Miriam reports on what looks like a frozen fish scandal in Israel, and the government reacts. What are STTPs. Are they good or bad...

Bake Your Own Za’atar-Topped Pita Recipe

The Middle East's daily bread, easily made at home. In the Middle East, here is always pita. Pita sops up humus and sauces; opens...

Renewed Avian Flu Scare Prompts West Bank Chicken Cull

Cases of the swine flu have died down, now avian flu scare resurges in Israel and the West Bank. Image via todds-gallery Animal cases...

Israel’s Frozen Fish Processed in China and Pumped With Water and Chemicals

How do you like your fish? Pumped up with a strong chemical cleaner called STTP (sodium trippolyphosphate), or without? Despite it being an important fish...

Vertical Farming in Masdar City? AeroFarms' Soil-less Solution

Aerofarms' stackable vertical farm uses mist to grow crops in areas where land is non-arable, like in the United Arab Emirates. Vertical farming, where...

Meet Your Garden's Best Friend, The Earthworm

An ode to the earthworm: An earthworm farmer in Israel praises the beauty of the earthworm. Time to grow your own? The earthworm is one...

Israeli Food Chemist Answers Nutrition Questions Online

Is olive oil really the healthiest fat, and why? Is it true that red wine has healing properties? And - must we (groan) exercise...

Eco-Jews Study Sustainable Living on "Hava ve Adam" Farm in Israel

Coming for a 5 month internship, learn more about the students and people from the ecological and organic farm, Hava ve Adam (Adam and...

Get Your Organic Produce at Amman's Souq al Balad Farmer's Market

Amman's Souq al Balad Farmer's Market is the place to go for organic and local produce (and some other fun stuff, too). The warm weather...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

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In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

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