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And actually, the only way to don't lose any kind of knowledge, not only the recipes, is to share it.

Otherwise, it will be lost.

And so there are all these ancestral recipes that there is nothing written.

There's an oral transmission from women to women.

Now they have written all of them.

They have record videos.

And it's the way to preserve in a very globalized world, to preserve this knowledge for future generations.

But it's extremely interesting to see that this ancestral history now is record for future generations.

The same way we have

seeds banks, now we have recipe banks.

Good morning and thank you, Maria, for inviting me and thank you for all of you, you are here.

My name is Fida.

I think everything started in 1982.

We see how in the West Bank the settlers are burning the olive trees and we see how they cut them and we see how many, many farmers couldn't arrive to their lands to collect

their olives and make their oil olive oil so many of Palestinian recipes lost the taste of olive oil this year in the kitchen in the houses of Palestinians because they couldn't go and collect their olives and they don't have money to buy the olive oil so they use a seed

It's important because many, many or most of Palestinian food recipes are based on olive oil because the oil that we always had.

And because they are fighting us with our ingredients, you know.

one of the most important ingredients.

In terms also psychological terms, because a farmer or an old man who used to, 70 years old, who used to every year to wait the season and go.

And I'm not saying that it's a romantic time, the time of olive oil, because it's hard work and you have to work a lot, but people wait for this.