EcoIQ

Before the current global CoVid situation I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Uri Meyer-Chissick.     Uri is well educated in multiple areas of food cultures, food and nutrition history, including extensive research into medieval medical scholars including the famous Jewish scholar and doctor Maimondes.  In Israel Uri is outspoken in the need to reconnect with our local biome and more specifically our local food history, cultures and traditions surrounding food.  Appearing on multiple Israeli news stations and independent media.   Uri has a fantastic Ted Talk where he chronicles his family decision to go totally local for a year.  Uri runs a centre in the north of Israel that reconnects people to; food and local food preparation traditions, place, through regular group wild foraging tours, and body and soul, through lectures and private consultations in natural health. He is the author of several books on wildcrafting, food as medicine, as established in the medieval Arabic world, and local food vs the issu