Leda Meredith, Foraging Pioneer: August 6, 1962 – May 24, 2023
Life, work and books of Leda Meredith.
Food
Tavlinksy is the spice witch of the Levinsky Market
It's Middle Eastern spicy sorcery. Plus it's rare for a Middle East spice market to be women-owned and run. But this Persian-Israeli woman Iris Tevlinksy defies market logic in Tel Aviv's famous Levinsky Market.
The wild wheat of Avigail’s Bread in Jaffa
In the the beautiful city of Jaffa resides a fabulous bakery home to a variety of incredible bread. Avigail’s Breads is a sustainable bakery that produces fresh loaves everyday and challah on Fridays.
Olive oil coffee trends in the Middle East
Oleato coffee is a new coffee made with olive oil
Brew an Unforgettable Cup of Coffee – Get the Perfect Taste Every Time!
Brewing a good cup of coffee takes skill, patience, and time. Make it organic and fair trade for sustainable karma.
Step into Candy Heaven: Discover the World’s Most Incredible Candy Stores
Hipster, handmade candy is making a comeback. Candy won't go away, but our relationship to it can change for the better.
RedSea Farms scales out of the Saudi desert as tech company RedSea hydroponics tech
Red Sea Farms has rebranded from being a business that produces cucumbers and peppers to RedSea, one that produces technology for hydroponic companies.
Eating tires with your lettuce?
Car exhaust fumes pollute our cities and damage our lungs – but tiny bits of car tires when we screech to a lot, or which come over with wear and tear? It was assumed by the scientific community that these bits of plastic end up on the side of the round or down the storm […]
10 alcohol-free mocktails for summer
In Islam, alcohol is strictly prohibited by the Quran, the holy book of Islam. They join a growing group of abstainers. Here are 10 virgin cocktails that are great for summer.
Starting a seed bank at home
Starting a seed bank at home is a great way to preserve family traditions of food and gardening. You don't need to be a biologist or forester: Many families have unique heirloom seeds that have been passed down from generation to generation.
Ancient emmer roots using gene tools from today
In a recent study the group used gene editing and hydroponics to pinpoint which genes are responsible for long roots. Long-rooted wheat can search for water and minerals better in the wild and is a more ideal gene trait if seed bank researchers want to produce seeds from wild varieties that are climate resilient.
10 winter soups
Here are 10 comforting soups to get you through the winter. One or two may be a pleasant surprise.
5 surprising uses for kitchen salt
We can’t live without salt. That’s a known fact. To satisfy the craving for this essential nutrient, people have fought wars to own it, built roads to transport it, suffered extreme labor to extract it from the earth, and paid high taxes for the right to consume it. What we still aren’t sure of is […]
Making organic sourdough from ancient wheat he grows
We feel what happens to food prices and our lifestyle when conflict broke out in the Ukraine and Russia. So much of our daily lives are interdependent on the global village that countries, and people, know they need to start thinking more locally to support food traditions and the culture they love. On one side […]
How dolphins and people fish together
Researchers have just confirmed what fishing together means for Brazilians and dolphins. They studied a centuries-old practice of dolphins and people fishing together in southern Brazil and learn it’s a symbiotic relationship which is now under threat. The researchers report how bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus) find schools of fish and herd them to the […]