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Meera Eisa Al-Naqbi Emirati chef

Emirati Gulfood Youth X winner considers chef career

Mark Lomas March 29, 2022

For many years, Emirati Meera Eisa Al-Naqbi didn’t think a career as a chef would be an option. While she loved cooking and was told she had natural flair, it always seemed it would be a pastime rather than a profession. But suddenly that dream is within the 26-year-old Emirati’s grasp after winning the inaugural Gulfood Youth X competition at Dubai World Trade Centre. Meera wowed judges with her modern take on Emirati and Arabic classics and her

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From Beder's Kitchen

Cooking for mental health From Beder’s Kitchen

Tahira Yaqoob December 8, 2020

Every night during Britain’s first lockdown, chef Joudie Kalla’s phone would ring at exactly 7pm. The friend on the other end would not need to say a word. Instead, she would sit watching on FaceTime as Kalla forced down mouthful after mouthful, or they would eat together in companionable silence, or she would tell Kalla anecdotes about her day, before ringing off and repeating the whole process the following evening. The kind gesture helped Palestinian

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batch cooking

Lose weight and save money with batch cooking

Zach Holz August 15, 2019

A year ago, I set myself a challenge: Go the whole month without ordering food or going out to eat more than once a week. I was able to complete this challenge, but I did not like it. I felt constrained, anxious and antisocial. And I was sick of doing dishes.  But the important thing is that I made it and I realized I could mentally cope with producing all my own food. However when

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collard cucumber rolls

#recipe: Cool down with these collard greens and cucumber rollups

livehealthymag.com August 11, 2019

The phrase “cool as a cucumber”, written by the English poet and dramatist John Gay, is an idyllic Ayurvedic idiom. Cucumbers are a summer vegetable that can have an inner temperature up to 20 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature. An accumulation of summer heat can heighten emotions, creating impatience, anger, and agitation. Physical manifestations of excess heat can cause imbalances of the liver, gallbladder, urinary bladder, blood, skin, and eyes. Luckily, the cooling and

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Bodytree Studio

Health news UAE

Ann Marie McQueen February 28, 2019

Bodytree’s Annual Yoga Market, the Fitness & Wellbeing Festival on Yas Island and new classes at Fitness First.

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