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5 stories for“migration and food”
Three of those words literally mean turning. The fourth means shepherd, and it exists because a hundred thousand Lebanese migrants arrived in Mexico and their children swapped the lamb for pork and added pineapple.
Aug 21, 2026
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
The version most of the world eats is the Levantine one, and it is a revision. Egypt still makes it the older way, with fava beans, under a different name. The argument about who owns it is genuinely political.
Aug 21, 2026
The name is a loanword from Turkish, the technique is a nineteenth century invention, and the man usually credited with it was a butcher in Bursa who turned the spit on its end. Here is where shawarma actually comes from.
Aug 21, 2026
Most filo is already vegan. Swap clarified butter for a blend of coconut oil and olive oil, use sugar syrup instead of honey, and the result is genuinely crisp rather than merely acceptable.
Aug 14, 2026
