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We here at Dibs embrace the "local" — local food, local customs, local products, local styles. Everything that's interesting or tasty in this world was originally the specialty of some specific region, however small.

But wouldn't life be boring if everyone was limited to experiencing only their own local specialties, and no others? The joy of life in the 21st century is that now we can all experience local delicacies and eccentricities not just from nearby but from around the globe.

While we admire those who strive to be true "locavores" and consume only products grown or made right where they live, in many parts of the world that's not feasible: Who wants to survive on moose meat and parsnips for half the year? Even here in farm-rich California, we often crave delights found only half a world away.

Dibs seeks to globalize the local, to celebrate our planet's dazzling multitudes of sights, sounds, flavors and wonders, without losing what makes each one of these unique.

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Archive for October, 2006

Celebrating the High Holy Days With the Hulk

Published on October 3, 2006

A Chasidic rabbi in New York invoked comic-book superheroes during his Yom Kippur sermon this year. These figures who leap tall buildings in single bounds inspired him as a youth in Britain and, as his new book reveals, they have Jewish roots. Self-described “comic-book rabbi” Simcha Weinstein, the official rabbi of Pratt Institute and the [...]

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Author Who Claimed to Verify King Arthur Has Died

Published on October 2, 2006

These days, as the lines grow ever fuzzier between truth and fiction, conspiracy and history, it no longer seems to matter whether certain figures actually ever lived. We’ve made movies about them, put them into novels, and it was all such a long time ago that who cares whether they actually rode horses, burped and [...]