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Whatever Happened to Tanghulu, the Candied Fruit Craze?
Sugar-glazed fruit skewers turned into a shop-opening frenzy across Korea in 2023, then collapsed almost as fast as the chains had multiplied.
Feb 5, 2026
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Why Smash Burgers Took Over Dubai's Menus
Thin, crispy-edged patties have muscled aside gourmet stacks across Dubai and the wider Gulf, and the reasons go well beyond taste alone this time.
Oct 5, 2024
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The Crookie: How a Paris Bakery's Side Project Broke TikTok
A Paris pastry chef stuffed cookie dough into a croissant almost as an afterthought, and it turned into a worldwide bakery trend within months.
Apr 10, 2024
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Birria Went From Tijuana Side Streets to Every Menu in America
The rich, red stewed meat that started as a Tijuana taco filling now shows up in ramen, quesadillas, and fast food chains coast to coast nationwide.
Sep 30, 2024
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Food Photography: Tips and Tricks For Creating Mouthwatering Images
Photographing food has taken the world by storm. With innovative social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest, food photography has become a form of art. People love to click pictures of their meals before eating, whether at restaurants or at home. However, clicking a perfect and professional food picture is not easy. It requires some
May 18, 2023
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Cottage Cheese Is Back, and It's All About Protein Now
The dairy aisle's most unfashionable tub has become a wellness staple, driven by TikTok recipes and America's ongoing protein obsession.
Nov 12, 2025
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The Pistachio Economy Dubai Chocolate Built (and Broke)
One viral chocolate bar turned pistachios into the food world's hottest commodity, and the ripple effects have reached lattes, croissants, and ice cream.
May 14, 2025
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Matcha is taking over your local cafe faster than coffee
Gen Z made matcha aesthetic, brands made it accessible, and now supply can't keep up. What happens when a trend grows too fast.
Sep 30, 2024
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Baked Feta Pasta: The TikTok Recipe That Refuses to Die
A Finnish food blogger's oven-baked feta recipe crossed an ocean, hit TikTok two years late, and still hasn't left anyone's dinner rotation.
Nov 20, 2023
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Sourdough Never Really Left, and Now It's Bigger Than the Pandemic Peak
The lockdown starter craze was supposed to fade with the pandemic. Search interest and market data suggest sourdough is only getting bigger.
Mar 1, 2024
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Why There's Suddenly Not Enough Matcha to Go Around
A global cafe boom collided with a limited Japanese harvest, and now matcha lattes are getting rationed, waitlisted, and quietly more expensive.
Oct 8, 2025
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Dubai Chocolate: The Viral Bar That Emptied the World's Pistachios
A home cooking experiment in a Dubai kitchen turned into a global chocolate craze, a pistachio shortage, and a wave of copycats chasing the same viral bite.
Sep 10, 2025
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How the Middle East Became Specialty Coffee's Next Big Market
Dubai and Riyadh are hosting barista championships and single-origin tastings as third-wave coffee culture reshapes a region long defined by cardamom-spiced brews.
May 5, 2025
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Basque Burnt Cheesecake: Why the Scorched Slice Won't Fade
A cramped pintxo bar in San Sebastian invented a deliberately burnt cheesecake, and it quietly became one of the world's most copied desserts.
Mar 5, 2024
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The Arab Medical Influencer Economy That Made Him Possible
One doctor outdrew every health ministry in the region using a phone and a food list. The conditions that allowed it are structural, and they have not changed since he died.
Jul 18, 2026
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Why the Conspiracy Theories Grew After Al-Awady Died
A natural death, an official report and an ordinary second autopsy were absorbed into a story about silencing. The mechanism behind that is predictable, and it is worth understanding.
Jul 8, 2026
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A Strong El Niño Is Building: The Time to Prepare Is Before the Weather Arrives
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
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Four Months After Its Founder Died, Nizam al-Tayyibat Is Bigger. That Is the Part Worth Studying.
Diaa al-Awady died on 19 April. Egypt banned his content on 3 May. The system spread faster afterwards. What that reveals about religious vocabulary, distrust of doctors and the cost of a health panic is more useful than another round of the argument.
Aug 22, 2026
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Pacific Climate Education Starts With Place, Language and Memory
UNESCO-backed work across Pacific communities shows climate education becoming more useful when science is connected with local language, culture and lived knowledge.
Jul 24, 2026
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Egypt Banned His Content. Can You Ban a Diet From the Internet?
The Supreme Council for Media Regulation ordered a blanket block on his audio, video and writing. The system kept spreading anyway, which raises a harder question than the ban answers.
Jun 8, 2026
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A Crocodile Keeper in Port Moresby Was Held in the Water for an Hour, and Died the Next Morning
A handler at Adventure Park in Papua New Guinea was seized at feeding time on Saturday and died at 7am on Sunday. Witnesses say his legs were in the animal's jaws for about an hour before help arrived.
Sep 6, 2026
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Wellness trends that actually stick vs the ones already dying
Gut health is real, personalized nutrition is trending, but collagen shots are on their way out. Here's what the $6.3T wellness economy reveals.
Jul 5, 2024
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GCC Ministers Put Navigation and Diplomacy at the Center of Regional Talks
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
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A Ten Trillion Dollar Industry Has Started Telling Its Customers to Stop Optimising
The 2026 wellness forecasts describe a pivot away from peak performance and towards something more ordinary. That is a strange message from a sector selling trackers, protocols and longevity clinics, and it is worth taking seriously anyway.
Aug 22, 2026
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August Was the Joint Hottest Month Ever Measured, and the First Above 1.5 Degrees Since Last November
The EU's climate service puts last month at 16.96 degrees Celsius globally, level with July 2023 and 1.65 degrees above pre-industrial. The oceans set their own record, western Europe had its hottest summer, and its rivers ran low. What the numbers mean.
Sep 10, 2026
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Von der Leyen Offered Canada a Seat That Does Not Exist Yet: the EU's First Associate Member, With Carney in the Gallery
A 73-minute State of the Union in Strasbourg proposed a European Security Council with Ukraine, Britain, Norway and Canada, a migration emergency framework, a social media ban under thirteen and a two trillion euro budget. The treaties know no such seat.
Sep 17, 2026
