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Iranian Tahcheen – the Eggplant and Mushroom Rice Recipe

A sumptuous Persian vegetarian recipe with eggplant, rice, and mushrooms.

The 17 best olive varieties

There’s a wide variety of olives to enjoy. Learn more about the different types, their nutrition, health benefits along with a tasty recipe to go with them.

Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan among the world’s hungriest countries (UN report)

In Afghanistan, 3.6 million people are reported to be in "emergency" (IPC Phase 4) levels of food insecurity, with another 10 million at "crisis" (IPC Phase 3) levels. In South Sudan, about 6.35 million people, or 54 percent of the total population, are estimated to be severely food insecure.

Sesame ideal crop for drought regions in the US

Climate change is a reality. New research shows that drought-tolerant crops like sesame (the main ingredient in tehina!) is an ideal alternative in regions that have relied on cotton or sorghum.

The Olive, Its History

The history and legends of the noble olive.

Plentiful rain not enough to grow the wheatfields of Syria

If you look to what was brewing before the Syrian civil war, it was clear that people there were suffering from the effects of climate change. Environmentalists warned that extended droughts there would cause hunger, poverty and unrest. The conditions were right about a decade ago for the poor conditions to foment to a very unfavourable civil war with millions of Syrians displaced to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Europe and even Canada.

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.

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.

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.

Make Delicious Pea Pod Wine

Use up the pods left over from shelling peas and beans to make - wine!

26 of the Most Effective Kitchen Hacks

Whether you’re struggling with a stuck jar lid, find your eyes watering while chopping onions or trying to fish pieces of egg shells out of your dish, our list of the kitchen experts’ top kitchen hacks will be useful. 

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.

Gold instead of cinnamon on cappuccinos in Arab states as poverty reels on nearby

The United Arab Emirate states have long been known for over extravagance; including driving white gold Mercedes sports coupes and keeping cheetahs and other...

The Healthiest Diet In The World Is How Israelis Eat

Israelis, says research published by the University of Washington, enjoy the world's healthiest diet. The study, Global Burden of Disease, was conducted by Dr...

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