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Lo, the Fall is Here
October 25, 2014
On a recent, short visit to the US East Coast, I was treated to the first signs of another brilliant autumn. Now that I’m home, my feet are comfortably back in flip flops and the main indication that summer is behind us is the supplement of a jacket and another blanket at the end of the […]
Sweet as Carob Syrup
September 21, 2014
For years I’ve wanted to observe how carob syrup is made. Like many of the highly labor-intensive, traditional Palestinian foodways, carob syrup production is barely practiced anymore. But several weeks ago, on a visit to Abu Malek in Kufar Manda, I saw an enormous pile of carob pods on the front porch. Fall is carob season […]
Back to the Batof
August 30, 2014
Last June, and seemingly a decade ago, I visited the cities of Sakhnin and Arrabe, for meetings with two NGOs. At the time, I learned about the work being done by the Towns Association for Environmental Quality on behalf of the Arab farmers of the Bet Netufa Valley. I was also treated to the wonderful […]
Common Roots
August 3, 2014
Among all the countless tragedies and losses of this current war is the blow that has been dealt to the already fragile relationships between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Even in the best of times, suspicion and distrust have been the default sentiments among most Israeli citizens about their “other” counterparts. And it is against […]
Back from Oxford
July 19, 2014
I just returned from my first time participating in the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery – an annual conference of food historians and other professionals and non-professionals who are engaged in food inquiry. It was an extraordinary experience to be in the company of so many like-minded individuals from all over the globe, in […]
Posted in: el babour, local foods, nazareth, Oxford Symposium, wheat and farike, wheat harvest, wheat mill
When the scales will tip
June 23, 2014
These are grim times here, where a disproportionate number of innocent people are enduring great suffering because of the actions of a few. Nothing new about that, and yet it is heartrending every time. In the pastoral Palestinian town of Arrabe in the Galilee near the Bet Netufa Valley, they are mourning a 14 year […]
Tipping the Seasonal Scale
June 6, 2014
In the Galilee the year is divided about equally into two seasons. The first, which starts in the fall, can be called the rainy season, although it is more accurately described as the period during which rain may or may not come. In the second season, quite surely it will not. As one would expect […]
Posted in: baladi vegetables, foods from the Bible, galilee foods, jewish holidays, local foods, passover, pesach, pomegranates, rain, seasons, shavuoth, Spring
Wheat, and Zaatar, to the Mill
May 2, 2014
I’ve started to research in earnest for the paper I’m going to present at the Oxford Symposium this summer. The subject of the symposium is markets, and I will talk about the market in Nazareth as a site of pilgrimage, not just for Christians visiting the site(s) where the Annunciation is believed to have taken […]
Posted in: edible wild plants, el babour, foods from the Bible, galilee foods, local foods, nazareth, seasons, spices, Spring, wheat, wheat and farike, wheat mill, zaatar
Relating to Wheat
April 12, 2014
These spring days, the roaring of combines rumbles in the background – rending thick fields of wheat into neat rows of shorn stalks. In the pre-industrial order of local agriculture, not only would this method of harvesting be unfathomable to a farmer watching from the side, but also the timing. Why would anyone cut down their good wheat […]
Posted in: foods from the Bible, galilee foods, jewish holidays, passover, pesach, seasonality, seasons, Spring, wheat, wheat and farike, wheat harvest
Galilee Seasonality 
November 9, 2014
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