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green olive and oregano focaccia
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We're sometimes asked in the market if we have smaller jars of olives. The economics of shipping ingredients from Lebanon means the larger the better!
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The good thing is that buying a bigger jar gives you the chance to use them in recipes. Together with highly aromatic oregano from Bassatin Baanoub and Zejd's EVOO, this easy focaccia makes a grand thing to have on the table over the weekend.
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Jekka's medicinal herb day
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We're very much looking forward to returning to Jekka's Herb Farm near Bristol on the 4th & 5th April with our prized Lebanese ingredients.
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Run over 2 days from 10am - 4pm, the focus will be on the medicinal importance of herbs. Jekka will be giving talks, as will Bee Mc Govern the herbalist and botanist and Jenny Chandler, the Bristol food writer.
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Tickets are on sale now; more details are on Jekka's website.
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If you're unable to make it, there's plenty of Lebanese goodness from Bassatin Baanoub's farm on our website!
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love carob molasses?
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More often than not, you'll find a
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bowl of carob molasses (bottom bowl) mixed with tahini on a Lebanese breakfast table along with za'atar (top bowl).
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Last year we spoke to Yasmina from Bassatin Baanoub to find out how they turn carob pods into molasses.
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Carob pods are used very differently in Sicily! Sam Bilton, a food historian, discusses the contrasting Mediterranean ways of using carob in her podcast Comfortably Hungry.
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a land day foraging walk for Palestine & Lebanon
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Following the success of our first Land Stories project, we've regrouped to organise a foraging walk in Bristol seeking out plants that are part of a Palestinian and Lebanese diet.
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On Land Day, March 30th, Maria of Healing Weeds and Ruby aka Artist Forager will guide us round Conham River Park in east Bristol discussing our common botanical connections with both Palestine & Lebanon.
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All money raised will be divided between Buzuruna Juzuruna, an agreocology collective in Lebanon and Om Sleiman, a farm practising community supported agriculture in Palestine.
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More details and tickets available on Headfirst's website below.
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The director of Tahaddi, the NGO who make our shorkk totes and aprons, have reopened their school in Beirut.
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Students from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq without identification papers (so they're unable to join Lebanese schools) are happy to be back.
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With Ramadan starting this Friday, Tahaddi hope to provide the 250 students with a healthy snack each day.
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Shorkk will be making a 10% donation from our sales over the month to support them.
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If you would like to donate, we've added their page below.
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For those looking to send a gift during the month of Ramadan, we're happy to make up bespoke gifts to make the gift all the more special.
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shorkk markets & fairs
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We've been updating our calendar adding in new markets! See if we're coming to a market or fair near you!
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