Healthy living

Sourdough Bread

By: Tali and Uri Mayer Chissick In one of the coldest nights this year, a snow storm in Jerusalem and freezing cold outside, our home-cook and the ...

Sprouted Burghul (Bulgur)

Every product in our Local Delicatessen has a story. We know the producers, talk to the farmers and generally – learn a lot from the people who bri...

From theory to practice

(Written by Uri Mayer-Chissick) I am not an expert on Halacha. However, my post is going to deal with the way the Halacha deals with nutrition. I h...

Germs – Summary

(Written by Uri Mayer-Chissick) You don't have to be a microbiologist to come across germs. I "meet" them' for instance, when I use fermentation pr...

Germs – Part 1

(by Uri Mayer-Chissick) I remember them from my childhood – when I was ill, or had dental problems (which didn't happen) or when food was rotting –...

Life Expectancy

Very often I have to deal with questions about life expectancy at meetings, lectures and courses that I give, when I talk about the evolution and h...

Eating is an Influential Act

(By Uri Mayer-Chissick)  On Friday, (23.3.12, the first day of Nissan), My Local Year ended. As of yesterday I can eat food from all over the world...