02 February 2010

There are now 45 Chefs for Peace, drawn from Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis and Palestinians.

You had hummus for lunch today. Tomorrow you will have lentil stew.

The group sprang out of a visit, 12 years ago, by four chefs - two Jewish Israeli, one Christian Arab Israeli and one Muslim Palestinian - to a slow food festival in Italy. To [Nabil Aho] the progression was obvious: "We use the same ingredients. If you can't work together in the kitchen, then where can you?"

BBC News | Middle East | Jerusalem Diary: Monday 25 February

The small kitchen was filled with fellow board members of Chefs for Peace teasing each other, squeezing shoulders. .. The board meeting is regularly interrupted by toasts in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic.

27 January 2010

They're saying the honeymoon is over.

8000 pixels square, the 2009 US Presidential inauguration, one year ago, from high above.

Inauguration 2009