Food

Catfish slime may help you overcome the next infection

Get to know wild beets, safe to eat and tasty.

This soup originated in Morocco, where home cooks usually use spinach. But I've adapted it to include the abundant wild beet greens that grow in my yard. It's rich, satisfying, and vegan.

Most hibiscus flowers are edible, but not all. If you live where the variety known as Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) grows, pick it freely, and make tea from the fresh or dried flowers. Give other hibiscus varieties a pass, unless you have an authoritative source affirming that they're safe to consume. In any case, you'll probably want to pick up the dried flowers at a health food store. They last 6 months if stored in an airtight container, away from light.

It's been nearly 130 years since Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi generated the first radio transmission on the Isle of Wight off the coast of...

Rich, sticky dates baked with cheese and nuts, a delicious appetizer or snack.

Make a hearty vegetable tajine for dinner.

In a world first, Israel advances alternative proteins –– beef without using animals was approved

FoodTech start-up Better Juice from Israel is collaborating with Ingredion (NYSE: INGR), a publicly traded company of specialty ingredients to the food and beverage industry.

New “smart” farming techniques and technologies, like drip irrigation and pest traps, are helping farmers in Uzbekistan revolutionize their greenhouses, save water and increase their crop yields and incomes. 

In a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found that lab-grown or “cultivated” meat’s environmental impact is likely to be “orders of magnitude” higher than retail beef based on current and near-term production methods.

Would you be happy to pour your friends a glass of wine from a wooden cask or sip your favourite rose from an aluminium can? Are there more sustainable wine drinking options for consumers and will they go for them? This is a questions marketing researchers at an Australian business school are asking.

Maalexi, the UAE-based dynamic risk management platform for SME agri-businesses, announces its completion of a $3 million pre-Series A fund raise. 

Daniel Hillel proved that plants grown in continuously moist soil, achieved through micro-irrigation, produce higher yields than plants grown under flooding or sprinkler irrigation.

Recipes for breads from Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, The Emirates, Yemen, Israel and Jordan.