August 24, 2009
1926 November After working out a plan for an expedition in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, I went together with the agronomist Eittingen to the valley of Esdralon where at present the Jewish colonization is concentrated and where Aaronsohn had made the main finds of wild wheat. The vegetation was mainly arboreal. Only during early spring [...]
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May 13, 2009
The cultivated variety that Vavilov described near the village of Hawran is still grown to some extent, as are a few varieties such as Salamouni, which is ideally suited for making bulgur, a cracked cereal used in tabbouleh. However, while the locally adapted varieties suited to bulgur and another traditional dish, kishk, have persisted in [...]
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