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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...

5 Ways To Use Up Your Basil Crop

Basil so so much more than pesto. Surprise your friends with these Summery treats.

Iraq’s breadbasket gets a $15 million EU grant in agriculture

Farming families in northern Iraq's Nineveh Governorate (the setting of the Jonah and the Whale biblical story!) will benefit from a European Union contribution of €15 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to recover agricultural livelihoods.

Drone fishing in Jaffa

Who needs a fishing boat when you can cast out 400 yards for the Big One using your drone?

Banana leaves replace plastic packaging in Asian markets

A Thai supermarket in Chiangmai has devised a brilliant alternative to plastic produce packaging, turning to natural banana leaves and raffia to bundle vegetables. Shoppers  immediately...

Costa Coffee UAE rewards eco-customers with free coffee!

Next Wednesday, baristas at Costa Coffee will be pouring free coffee for all United Arab Emirates (UAE) customers who belly up to the coffee...

Creamy white malabi pudding with pistachios

Rose-flavored sweetness and a light, creamy texture that keeps you dipping your spoon back in - in Israel this pudding is called malabi. In Turkey,...

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