Chickpea and Wild Beet Greens Soup Recipe
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.
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Make Hibiscus Tea and Hibiscus Sherbet
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.
Somali farmers hear it on the radio
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 England. And yet, despite the amazing digital innovations that have revolutionized global communications since that historic broadcast, radio continues to be one of the most popular forms of media in the […]
Dates Baked With Goat Cheese
Rich, sticky dates baked with cheese and nuts, a delicious appetizer or snack.
Hearty Vegetable Tajine For Cozy Winter Dinners
Make a hearty vegetable tajine for dinner.
Israel is the first country to approve the sale of cultured meat
In a world first, Israel advances alternative proteins –– beef without using animals was approved
Better Juice partners with Ingredion to create 80% less sugar in juice
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.
Uzbek greenhouses go digital
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.
Lab-grown meat telling convenient lies about carbon footprint?
In a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found that lab-grown or “cultivated” meat’s environmental impact is likely to be “orders of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.
Are there sustainable options to glass wine bottles?
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.
Financial tech startup for agriculture gets $3 million in funding
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 pioneer of drip irrigation showed us how to grow food in the desert
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.
A Journey into Middle Eastern Bread Traditions
Recipes for breads from Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, The Emirates, Yemen, Israel and Jordan.
The UN stance on food was a COP-out says Slow Food leaders
Slow Food is a food movement in Europe that find the best Slow Cheese in Europe. Slow Food says COP28 wasn't address agroecology.
Amy’s Kitchen Co-Creator Rachel Berliner Explains The Earliest Days of The Brand
Amy’s Kitchen has continued to expand over the years and now includes Amy’s Drive Thru in five locations throughout California.