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Grateful for a warm welcome to the Alboran Sea
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Scatole. (Malta, La Valletta) #travel #street #streetphotography #malta #mediterranean

Roughly 40% protein by dry weight. Among the highest of any plant food on earth, and almost nobody in an American grocery store knows it's there. Lupini have fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years. Raw, they're genuinely bitter — quinolizidine alkaloids, days of soaking and rinsing to debitter — which is why most of us should buy them already brined in a jar. Rinse, pop them out of their skins, olive oil, lemon, a great deal of black pepper. A bowl of protein for less than a coffee. Two hard cautions, and I'd rather say them twice than not enough: lupin is a recognized allergen with real cross-reactivity to peanut, so if peanuts are a problem in your house then lupin is a problem in your house. And the ornamental lupines in the garden are a different species and genuinely toxic. Admire those and walk on. What's the cheapest real protein sitting in your kitchen right now? https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodPhotography #Frugal #FoodSovereignty #Mediterranean #DailyGathering

BARBE' RIVIERA - Veduta GENERALE #BARBE #European #Mediterranean #BarbeRiviera #Italy #BarbeRiviera-Veduta #FerroCandilera #Piemonte #photography #FerroCandilera https://fotografia.cultura.gov.it/iccd/item/FFC038387

#Mediterranean The Mediterranean's warming waters are drawing hundreds of invasive species Silvia Stellacci and Menelaos Hadjicostis | Scientists say climate change is heating the Mediterranean Sea, inviting invasive fish species that harm native populations https://archive.ph/wip/iKFUP #ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Hilal Altınbilek https://www.girlselfie.com/765244/hilal-altinbilek-5/ #Altinbilek #CelebTurkey #hilal #mediterranean #TurkishCeleb #TurkishCelebrities #TurkishCelebrity #TurkishCelebs #TurkishFemaleCelebrities #TurkishFemaleCelebrity

Around the Sea of Galilee. Tiberias from the sea between 1950 and 1977. Matson Photo Service 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in. #theSeaofGalilee #Tiberias #MatsonPhotoService #Mediterranean #WorldWarII #Israel #Tiberias #photography https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705613/

200.000 people(!) forced to evacuate wildfires in France and Spain. Horrifying. “EU countries are sending additional ground and aerial reinforcements…Croatia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Portugal, Italy, Greece and more have all contributed.” https://news.sky.com/story/europe-wildfires-latest-french-tourist-hotspot-evacuated-as-national-emergency-declared-in-spain-13566532 #EU #UE #Europe #Mediterranean #Espana #Spain #France #Wildfires #Incendies #Incendios #Climate #ClimateCrisis

PUERTO DE POLLENSA (MALLORCA) - DETALLE DEL PUERTO VEDUTA PANORAMICA E SULLO SFONDO IL PORTO #PUERTODEPOLLENSA #DELPUERTOVEDUTA #Mediterranean #Zanderkraut #photography #FerroCandilera https://fotografia.cultura.gov.it/iccd/item/FFC041368

Around the Sea of Galilee. Tiberias from the west between 1950 and 1977. Matson Photo Service 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in. #theSeaofGalilee #Tiberias #MatsonPhotoService #Mediterranean #Israel #Tiberias #photography https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705611/

Northward from Jerusalem. Hills of Nazareth, showing Hill of Precipitation, from Esdraelon between 1950 and 1977. Matson Photo Service 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in. #Jerusalem #HillofPrecipitation #Esdraelon #MatsonPhotoService #Mediterranean #Israel #Palestine #aMiddleEastern #Nazareth #photography https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705604/

This is a very good read -- which points out that Ancient Egypt was #African, but often gets lumped into #Mediterranean history (guilty of that myself). And yes, I wondered about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep as well... Also, there are "love spells" in Egyptian magic whose purpose was for a woman to attract another woman. themstory: #AncientEgypt Was Totally Queer By Hugh Ryan February 22, 2018 "In 1964, archaeologists in Egypt opened the tomb of #Niankhkhnum and #Khnumhotep, two men who lived and died sometime around the year #2380BCE. Inside, they would discover what might be the oldest evidence of queer lives in existence. "In the tomb, the two were depicted in many of the stereotypical ways that heterosexual couples were shown in Egyptian funereal art: kissing nose-to-nose, holding hands, and standing very closely together, almost in an embrace. Their wives (and children) are also depicted in the tombs, though curiously, there are no paintings of either man embracing or kissing their wife. "If a man and a woman were depicted in this way, they would obviously be interpreted as a couple. And so, faced with all this evidence, archaeologists leapt to the conclusion that Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were... brothers — really, really close brothers. Possibly even conjoined twins (not that they are depicted as conjoined in the tomb at all — in fact, they are often depicted separately). "#JacklynLacey, who specializes in #AfricanEthnology at the American Museum of Natural History, is unsurprised about these interpretations. I can almost hear her eyes roll over the phone as she talks about the long history within the field of #archaeology — 'a discipline that has reproduced itself through the #colonialist #WhiteMale lens,' she says — of 'explaining away things that appear queer.' "What is definitely known about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep? They worked as chief manicurists to the Pharaoh in the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. This might sound like the set-up for a terrible gay remake of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but at the time, grooming the Pharoah was revered labor. "Though they weren’t themselves nobility, it is clear from their tomb that the two men were of high status. And, curiously enough, they were of equal status, being depicted in complimentary activities without either being shown as smaller, lesser, or subservient to the other. "According to author Wael Fathi, this is far from the only allusion to queerness in Ancient Egyptian culture. For other examples, he cites the Egyptian Book of the Dead, written in 970 BCE (not to be confused with the Tibetan Book of the Dead, written sometime in the 8th century CE). Its female author writes, 'I never had sex with a woman in the temple.' Who knew so much suggestion could be packed into the phrase 'in the temple.' There are also numerous allusions to same-sex sexual activity and gender bending among the tales of Egyptian gods. And in the Book of Dreams (circa 1200 BCE), different fates are laid out for the woman who has sex with a married woman versus the one who has sex with a single woman. "Still and all, it would be historically inaccurate to talk about 'gay Ancient Egyptians,' Lacey hastens to clarify, for two reasons. First, we’re dealing with small amounts of evidence, which makes it hard to interpret what, exactly, we’re seeing. It’s not strictly impossible that Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep could have been especially close brothers, or even twins. As for the Book of the Dead, prominent men (and occasional women) paid to have versions written out specifically for them, and some have suggested that this particular version miscopied a line meant for a man into a text for a woman. Second, even when we do correctly identify a practice — say, of women having sex with one another outside of the temple — that doesn’t mean that that physical activity is correlated with the same kind of identity we know today as lesbianism. (For this reason, I prefer to use the word queer, as a way of gesturing towards a sexual or emotional practice that was unusual — no such other tombs of two men or two women have been yet identified — and outside the bounds of heterosexuality.) "Egyptian history is, in some ways, particularly prone to these problems of misinterpretation, because starting in the late 19th and early 20th century, 'the country is basically excised out of the continent and moved into the Levant by Westerners,' according to Lacey. Over and over again, historians and archaeologists have contrasted Egyptians with Greeks and Romans, and have seen Egyptian practices through what we know from those cultures, rather than putting them in conversation with other #AfricanEmpires — even though, for example, we know that the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (aka the #KushiteEmpire) was actually a series of five #Nubian rulers, who came from Northern #Sudan. Lacey tells me that there is a persistent rumor among scholars who study Nubia that 'there were entirely homosexual groups of men living in the kingdom of Kush,' though no one has ever isolated the source of those rumors, or proven or disproven them. Perhaps that’s because only a tiny fraction of the time, money, and effort that’s been spent on archaeology and ethnography in Egypt and the Mediterranean has ever been spent on other parts of Africa. "In fact, when the African Peoples hall opened at the American Museum of Natural History in 1960, it was the first major permanent museum exhibition to include Egypt with the rest of Africa. To this day, Lacey points out, this is a problem in most museums. 'The Met has a Department of Africa, The Americas, and Oceania,' she says, “essentially combining four continents, but it also has a department of Egyptology.” And at the Brooklyn Museum, they have a collection of “Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art,” which mixes Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and Ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. "Queer Egyptian history is thus caught in a double bind: it is rarely seen as queer, and rarely seen as African. Perhaps today, at a time when we are finally willing to accept an #Afrofuturist fictive African empire that has nothing to do with the West, as audiences did with the record-breaking film Black Panther this weekend, we can extend our imaginations backwards and begin to imagine a past that sees Africa as an entire continent — one in conversation with #Mediterranean cultures, but not the same as them." Hugh Ryan is the author of the forthcoming book When Brooklyn Was Queer (St. Martin’s Press, March 2019), and co-curator of the upcoming exhibition On the (Queer) Waterfront at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Source: https://www.them.us/story/themstory-ancient-egypt #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory #QueerHistory #Histodon

Northward from Jerusalem. Taiybeh village, Ephraim. John 11:54 between 1950 and 1977. Matson Photo Service 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in. #Jerusalem #Ephraim #MatsonPhotoService #aMiddleEastern #Mediterranean #WestBank #photography https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705580/

Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Se volete farvi del male, continuate pure. Ogni anno abbiamo il fenomeno dell’estate che immerge la frisella in mare e poi se la mangia”: il monito di Matteo Bassetti Ogni estate ha la sua moda discutibile. Quest’anno, o meglio anche quest’anno, torna la frisella “inzuppata” direttamente in mare: pane bagnato nell’acqua salata, poi pomodorini, mozzarella e olio, come se il Mediterraneo fosse una salamoia a chilometro zero. A stroncare la trovata è Matteo Bassetti, che in un video pubblicato sui social la definisce senza troppi giri di parole “una nuova moda molto pericolosa”. L’infettivologo mostra la scena e ricostruisce il gesto: “Prendiamo una frisella, ci mettiamo dentro un po’ di mozzarella, un po’ di pomodorini e poi la immergiamo nel mare salato”. Fin qui, appunto, la ricetta virale. Poi arriva il punto sanitario: “Perché si fa dei danni? Perché nell’acqua oggi ci possono essere batteri, virus, petrolio che viene dalle navi o altre cose”. Tradotto: il mare può anche sembrare limpido, ma non è acqua alimentare, né tantomeno un condimento certificato. Bassetti insiste proprio su questo equivoco: “Non si può pensare che siccome l’acqua è salata allora sia anche sicura”. E respinge in anticipo la difesa più prevedibile, quella della tradizione familiare: “Lo faceva mio nonno, lo faceva mia madre”. La risposta è secca: “Fa male, non fate queste stupidaggini. Ogni anno abbiamo il fenomeno dell’estate che immerge la frisella in mare e poi se la mangia. Se volete farvi del male, continuate pure”. La frisella resta una cosa serissima. Il mare, però, meglio lasciarlo alle nuotate. L'articolo “Se volete farvi del male, continuate pure. Ogni anno abbiamo il fenomeno dell’estate che immerge la frisella in mare e poi se la mangia”: il monito di Matteo Bassetti proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano. If you want to harm yourselves, continue doing so. Every year we have the phenomenon of summer where they immerse bread with butter in the sea and then eat it: this is Matteo Bassetti’s warning. Every summer has its questionable fashion trend. This year, or rather even this year, the “soaked” sandwich trend is back – bread soaked in saltwater, then tomatoes, mozzarella, and oil, as if the Mediterranean were a zero-kilometer brine. Matteo Bassetti is criticizing the stunt, calling it in a video posted on social media, “a very dangerous new trend” without wasting words. The epidemiologist shows the scene and reconstructs the action: “We take a sandwich, we put some mozzarella and tomatoes inside, and then we immerse it in saltwater.” So far, this is the viral recipe. Then comes the health concern: “Why are you causing harm? Because today there could be bacteria, viruses, oil from ships or other things in the water.” Translated: The sea may seem clear, but it’s not food-grade water, let alone certified seasoning. Bassetti insists on this confusion: "You can't think that because the water is salty, it's also safe." And he preemptively rejects the most predictable defense, that of family tradition: “My grandfather did it, my mother did it.” The response is sharp: “It’s harmful, don’t do these stupid things. Every year we have this summer phenomenon that immerses the sandwich in the sea and then eats it. If you want to harm yourself, continue doing it.” The sandwich remains a serious matter. The sea, however, is best left for swimming. The article “If you want to harm yourself, keep going. Every year we have the summer phenomenon that immerses the sandwich in the sea and then eats it”: Matteo Bassetti’s warning comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano. #MatteoBassetti’s #Mediterranean #zero-kilometer #MatteoBassetti #IlFattoQuotidiano https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/22/se-volete-farvi-del-male-continuate-pure-ogni-anno-abbiamo-il-fenomeno-dellestate-che-immerge-la-frisella-in-mare-e-poi-se-la-mangia-il-monito-di-matteo-bassetti/8455851/

From another angle; nice daytime view of the Mediterranean 💔 #Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism #Mediterranean

Bethany & new church between 1948 and 1958. Larsson, Lewis 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in. #Bethany& #Larsson #Lewis #MiddleEastern #Islamic #Christian #Mediterranean #Bethany #WestBank #photography https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705873/

Where has all the Palestinian olive oil gone? Thousands of tonnes of Palestinian olive oil are missing from supermarket shelves around the world, from the Gulf and Europe to the US and Malaysia. That is keenly felt by farmers in Palestine, where the olive tree, with de… #dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #ForeignDeskTeam #Gaza #Mediterranean #Olive #Palestine #standard #story #trade https://www.diningandcooking.com/2731142/where-has-all-the-palestinian-olive-oil-gone/

Il Tempo: Mediterraneo, Cirielli "I nostri porti hanno ruolo fondamentale per sicurezza" Mediterraneo, Cirielli "I nostri porti hanno ruolo fondamentale per sicurezza" Mediterranean, Cirielli “Our ports have a fundamental role for security” Mediterranean, Cirielli “Our ports have a fundamental role for security” #Mediterranean #Cirielli https://www.iltempo.it/pillole/2026/07/17/video/mediterraneo-cirielli-i-nostri-porti-hanno-ruolo-fondamentale-per-sicurezza--48594534/

Il Tempo: Fidanza "Il Mediterraneo è tornato al centro delle politiche europee" Fidanza "Il Mediterraneo è tornato al centro delle politiche europee" Betrothed: “The Mediterranean has returned to the center of European politics” Betrothed ("Fidanza") "The Mediterranean has returned to the center of European politics." #Mediterranean #European https://www.iltempo.it/pillole/2026/07/17/video/fidanza-il-mediterraneo-e-tornato-al-centro-delle-politiche-europee--48593460/

Sicilianews24.it: La biodiversità trascurata del Mar Mediterraneo necessita di protezione urgente per il suo futuro. Il Mare Mediterraneo e la sua Biodiversità Unica Il Mare Mediterraneo, pur rappresentando meno dell’1% della superficie acquatica globale, ospita circa il 18% della biodiversità marina mondiale. Circa 150 milioni di persone vivono lungo le sue coste, una cifra simile alla popolazione della Russia. Questo mare non solo sostiene una vita marina incredibile, ma sequestra anche 17,2 milioni di tonnellate di CO2 ogni anno. In questo contesto, la giornalista Manuela Callari offre un approfondimento sulle minacce che la biodiversità mediterranea deve affrontare. Callari ha scritto per Mongabay, portando alla luce il dilemma degli ricci di mare (Paracentrotus lividus) lungo la costa italiana. Questi invertebrati marini svolgono un ruolo cruciale nel mantenimento della salute degli ecosistemi marini, regolando l’abbondanza di alghe e fungendo da alimento per i predatori. Nonostante il loro valore ecologico, i ricci di mare sono stati oggetto di pesca eccessiva e persino bracconaggio nelle aree marine protette, alimentati dalla domanda di questo ingrediente principale per un piatto tipico: gli spaghetti ai ricci di mare. Callari afferma: “In alcune zone d’Italia, come Puglia e Sicilia, i ricci di mare sono consumati crudi o cucinati con spaghetti. A causa di questo, i ricci sono stati sovrapescati, e in alcune aree non esistono più”. L'articolo La biodiversità trascurata del Mar Mediterraneo necessita di protezione urgente per il suo futuro. sembra essere il primo su Sicilianews24.it. The Mediterranean Sea’s neglected biodiversity needs urgent protection for its future. The Mediterranean Sea and its Unique Biodiversity The Mediterranean Sea, despite representing less than 1% of the global water surface, hosts approximately 18% of the world’s marine biodiversity. Around 150 million people live along its coasts, a figure similar to the population of Russia. This sea not only supports incredible marine life but also sequesters 17.2 million tons of CO2 annually. In this context, journalist Manuela Callari offers an in-depth look at the threats facing Mediterranean biodiversity. Callari wrote for Mongabay, shedding light on the dilemma of sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus) along the Italian coast. These marine invertebrates play a crucial role in maintaining the health of marine ecosystems, regulating algae abundance and serving as food for predators. Despite their ecological value, sea urchins have been subject to overfishing and even poaching in protected marine areas, fueled by demand for this key ingredient in a typical dish: spaghetti with sea urchins. Callari states: “In some parts of Italy, such as Puglia and Sicily, sea urchins are eaten raw or cooked with spaghetti. Because of this, the sea urchins have been overfished, and they no longer exist in some areas.” The article Mediterranean Biodiversity Neglected Needs Urgent Protection for its Future appears to be the first on Sicilianews24.it. #TheMediterraneanSea #UniqueBiodiversity #lessthan1% #approximately18% #Russia #172milliontons #ManuelaCallari #Mediterranean #Callari #Mongabay #Italian #Italy #Puglia #Sicily #first https://www.sicilianews24.it/la-biodiversita-trascurata-del-mar-mediterraneo-necessita-di-protezione-urgente-per-il-suo-futuro-835280.html