Curations from the Human Jungle
[Apologies to the extended family and Silverback Nation. Due to rampant professional incompetence on my part, the last few days of the Christmas edition of the holiday Digest did not post as scheduled. SB SM] Up early, hit the breakfast buffet (pickled herring, smoked herring, candied herring), and tour director extraordinaire herds us into the Magic... Continue Reading →
Where We Are ... (Hannah) After a hearty breakfast, we're off to the Jemaa el Fna medina to hunt for treasures -- exquisite glass lanterns, hand-woven Moroccan rugs, exotic spices, jeweled kaftans. In the afternoon, we'll visit Ourzazate, a desert city that has been featured in numerous movies and TV shows like Game of Thrones. We'll ride... Continue Reading →
[This is another excerpt from from my long-awaited, highly-anticipated entitled Extra-Ordinary: A Step-by-Step Memwah. Here's an update from the author: "You're going to have to keep awaiting and highly-anticipating for a long time, because this sucker ain't never gonna see the light of day, except here on the ephemeral pages of Silverback Digest. SB SM]... Continue Reading →
Ancient Beer Is Craft’s New Frontier By Sara Toth Stub This work first appeared on SAPIENS under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here. One morning in May 2019, a crowd of journalists gathered around the Biratenu bar in Jerusalem, snapping photos as a bartender poured golden, frothy beer into plastic cups. The... Continue Reading →