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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

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

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

Lifestyle

Swicy, Nostalgia and a Duck Comeback: What Fast Food Chains Are Actually Serving This Autumn

Taco Bell paired with Olivia Rodrigo for a pink Baja Blast, Chick-fil-A launched a chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich, and P.F. Chang's brought duck back after a decade. Chains are chasing sweet-and-spicy flavour and old favourites over pumpkin spice.

Sep 25, 2026

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

Protein Mania: One Macro's Takeover

Protein went from fitness afterthought to grocery store obsession. Now it's in your cereal, ice cream, and pasta. Why did one nutrient consume America.

Jun 18, 2024

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

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

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

One-Pan Wonders: The Formula That Conquered Food Media

One sheet pan, 30 minutes, everything done. The one-pan dinner isn't just a trend, it's how America stopped cooking complicated meals.

Apr 22, 2025

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

Swangy Tamarind Glazed Chicken Wings for the Flavour Replacing Swicy on Fast Food Menus

Burger King's new Special Savory Sauce launched 1 September and was already being called swangy, sweet, tangy and a touch spicy, in a roundup two days later. This home version glazes wings in the same tamarind-and-BBQ direction.

Sep 29, 2026

Human Rights Watch Says the Houthi Siege of Taizz May Amount to the War Crime of Starvation

The rights group says Houthi forces encircled Yemen's third-largest city this month, and cites UN figures on empty flour stocks, a failing health system and halved water production.

Oct 29, 2026

Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat

Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.

May 13, 2026

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

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

Business

Why Gulf Diners Are Eating Differently This Year

Boycotts, tighter budgets and a longer war are reshaping where GCC consumers eat, and Western fast food chains are the ones feeling it hardest.

Sep 10, 2024

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

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

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

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

Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning: What Research Says

The Mediterranean diet isn't trendy, it's proven. New 2025 research shows it cuts diabetes risk by a third when combined with lifestyle changes.

Feb 10, 2025

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

A Swicy Hot Honey Baked Chicken Recipe for the Flavour SPAM Just Bet a New Permanent Product On

Hormel launched SPAM Hot Honey on 19 September, its first permanent new flavour in two years, riding the swicy trend a 3 September piece traced back through Gujarati chhunda and Korean tteokbokki. This bakes the same sweet-heat onto chicken thighs.

Sep 27, 2026

A Matcha Yogurt Tiramisu for the Flavour a 23 September Report Says Is Beating Pumpkin Spice

Matcha led latte searches in 29 US states this year against pumpkin spice's three, according to a 23 September report on Google Trends data. This no-bake dessert folds matcha into the viral yogurt tiramisu format instead of coffee.

Sep 27, 2026

Witches' Brew Halloween Punch: The Lime Sherbet and Ginger Ale Bowl Everyone Is Searching For

Google says witches brew punch is the top trending Halloween drink of 2026. Here is a no-cook green sherbet punch with an ice ring, for a crowd of twelve, ready in fifteen minutes plus freezing time.

Oct 28, 2026

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

Russia and Ukraine's Oleshky Ceasefire Takes Effect, and the Marines Say It Is Holding

The local truce began at 3 a.m. Kyiv time for aid and evacuations in the occupied Kherson town, though the Kremlin says it is not a wider pause and Kyiv fears evacuees could be steered to Russia.

Oct 27, 2026

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

Business

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

Chocolate Cake for Breakfast: A Tender Cocoa Sponge With Chocolate Buttercream, for Halloween Weekend

Practical Magic fans are baking the aunts' breakfast cake again. This tender two-layer cocoa sponge with soft chocolate buttercream needs one bowl and boiling water in the batter.

Oct 30, 2026

Business

Fertilizer's Sharp Price Drop Could Become Food Relief, but Not Overnight

World Bank data show fertilizer prices fell 21.8% in June. Farmers and shoppers may benefit later, though contracts, planting cycles and energy costs slow the transmission.

Aug 2, 2026

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

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

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

Technology

Monitored Wildlife Populations Are Down 73 Per Cent on Average Since 1970, WWF Says, but Tigers and Tuna Are Recovering

The 16th edition counts 35,803 monitored populations across 5,790 species, finds freshwater life hit hardest, and says food and finance must now follow energy past a tipping point.

Oct 8, 2026

More Than 250,000 Have Fled Yemen's Fighting Since July as a Houthi Missile Strike Kills Dozens of Recruits

The UN refugee agency says Taiz accounts for three quarters of departures, while a ballistic missile strike on a Shabwa training centre killed more than 50 new security recruits.

Oct 21, 2026

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

Iraq's Prime Minister Visits Damascus to Discuss Sending 2 Million Barrels a Day of Oil Through Syria

Ali al-Zaidi met Ahmed al-Sharaa in the first such visit since Assad fell, with the Baniyas pipeline on the table as Hormuz stays disrupted. No deal, timetable or financing was announced.

Oct 29, 2026

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

Russia and Ukraine Agree a Local Ceasefire in Oleshky for Aid and Evacuations, but Give Two Start Dates

The White House says the first lady brokered a pause in fighting in the occupied Dnieper town, but Washington says it starts on 29 October while Russia's general staff points to the 27th.

Oct 24, 2026

NATO Sends More Patrol Planes to the Black Sea After a Run of Drone Strikes on Merchant Ships

Allies will add maritime patrol aircraft, radar and counter-drone teams after ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria, though nobody in the alliance has named Russia as the attacker.

Oct 21, 2026

Swiss Voters Reject Stricter Neutrality Rules by About 70 Percent, Leaving Sanctions on Russia Possible

An initiative to write "perpetual and armed" neutrality into the Swiss constitution and bar most sanctions was beaten on Sunday, a result that lets Bern keep mirroring European Union measures against Russia.

Sep 28, 2026

Health

Food Allergy Treatment Exists Now. It Is Not a Cure.

Oral immunotherapy raises the dose a patient can tolerate before a reaction starts. That protects against accidents, which is not the same as being able to eat the food.

Jul 29, 2026

Italy's General Strike Fills Rome, Milan and Turin as Students and Unions March Against Living Costs and Rearmament

A 24-hour walkout called by the USB union brought marches to dozens of cities on Friday under heavy policing, with skirmishes in Turin and a route past the Colosseum and the Economy Ministry in Rome.

Oct 30, 2026

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

Palestinian Food: A Guide to the Dishes, Regions and Rules

Not a single cuisine but several, split between coast, hills and desert. What defines it, which dishes matter, and why so much of it is built on olive oil, wheat and the seasons.

Aug 9, 2026

Every One of 212 Plant Based Products Tested in Britain Contained a Fungal Toxin

A survey published in Food Control screened UK burgers, vegan sausages and oat, almond and soy drinks for 19 mycotoxins. All 212 carried at least one. Every measured level sat below the European guideline, which is the part people keep skipping.

Aug 30, 2026

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

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

Crypto

Global Warming’s Call for Sizzling Summers Ahead: Heat Waves

Global climate change may be the most significant problem ever faced by humankind. Global climate change, also called global warming or the greenhouse effect can convey mild or gentle warming, however, a rise of just a few degrees in the average temperature of the earth can result in large-scale regional weather patterns. Global warming is

Aug 19, 2023

High-Protein Egg Bites for a Back-to-School Season Built Around Federal Guidance to Double Up on Protein

A 3 September piece on back-to-school cooking cited federal guidance that children may need nearly double the protein previously recommended, while a 18 September report tracked schools scrambling to meet new standards. These bake ahead for lunchboxes.

Sep 27, 2026

Gochujang Butter Noodles for the Sauce McDonald's Korea Just Sent Across Thirteen Asian Markets

McDonald's Korea launched a gochujang butter menu fronted by G-Dragon on 17 September, part of a wider push a 23 September report says has pushed gochujang exports up 10 per cent this year. This ten-minute noodle dish uses the same pairing.

Sep 27, 2026

Travel

Where to Eat Vegan in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Jeddah

Cold-pressed juice bars, Armenian-Lebanese plant plates, and a vegan bakery in Ar Rawdah: how Riyadh and Jeddah are building a real vegan dining map.

Oct 2, 2025

Travel

Qatar's Plant-Based Dining Scene: Where to Eat Vegan in Doha

From a museum-attached vegan kitchen to a Pearl Qatar juice bar chain, Doha's plant-based restaurants are small in number but sharp in ambition.

Dec 18, 2025

Cottage Cheese Chips, the One-Ingredient Snack a 18 September Recipe Called the Only One You Need

A recipe published on 18 September and picked up in syndication the next day set out to perfect the viral cottage cheese chip. This version uses everything bagel seasoning and a low, slow bake so the chips actually crisp rather than just drying out.

Sep 27, 2026

The Carnivore Diet's Evidence Problem, Explained Plainly

All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.

Apr 5, 2026

Witches' Cauldron Beef Stew in the Slow Cooker, for the Halloween Table

Google says searches for a cauldron crock pot are at an all-time high. Here is a dark stout and beef stew with carrots, potatoes and green peas that serves six and cooks itself while you carve.

Oct 29, 2026