
Israel goes gourmet (audio)
Israel is fast becoming one of the most exciting food destinations in the world as its melting pot of citizens creates an extraordinary culinary culture.

Israel is fast becoming one of the most exciting food destinations in the world as its melting pot of citizens creates an extraordinary culinary culture.

In the Golan Heights, the soil, altitude and climate prove ideal for making internationally award-winning wines for more than 30 years.

ISRAEL21c tours the ancient port city to see how the already popular seaside tourist stop is getting more attractive by the day.

Every chocoholic fantasy you can imagine was answered at Israel’s recent Chocolate Festival. Chocolate tahini, anyone?

Chefs at 70 Tel Aviv-Jaffa eateries have thrown the kitchen doors wide open to the public at a new behind-the-scenes event.

Israel’s Catalyst Agtech has a product that can be mixed with pesticides and herbicides to keep them from contaminating groundwater after use.

Other events this year in Israel: A vegan cookout for Independence Day and a Vegan-Mobile traveling the length of the country.

Israeli and French chefs and students whip up mouthwatering variations of one another’s traditional foods.

A photo interview with 12 Tel Avivians who eschew the use of animal flesh explores the motives, conflict and ideals driving Israel’s Vegan movement.

‘What is going on here is really remarkable. I don’t think this took hold so quickly and intensely in any other place in the world,’ says Israeli food writer Ori Shavit.

Take a taste of the microbrewery culture in Israel, courtesy of the Dancing Camel in Tel Aviv.

An Israeli graduate student is working on an international project to reintroduce prawns to eat parasite-carrying snails in African waters.

The founder of Domaine du Castel family winery was one of two Israelis to be honored with the French National Order of Agricultural Merit this year.

Milk & Honey Distillery founder: ‘We’ve seen how Israeli wine has done great things for Israel’s reputation and we’d love our whiskey to achieve the same.’

‘You’ll do equally well in Tel Aviv whether you’re a hedonist or more cerebral type.’