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Get Winter Soup Club A six-week series featuring soup recipes and cozy vibes, plus side dishes and toppings, to get us all through the winter. Enter Email Sign Up Savor world-class cuisine and authentic Middle Eastern flavors at the Jordan International Food Festival (JIFF) in Amman, running Aug. 6-11. Handout Advertisement THERE Blending international cuisine and cultures Savor world-class cuisine and authentic Middle Eastern flavors at the Jordan International Food Festival (JIFF) in Amman, running Aug. 6-11. The festival, now in its second year, returns with the theme 'gathered,' describing a fundamental Arab way of being — of bringing people together to cook, to eat, to remember, and to celebrate. The festival blends traditional and creative flavors from across the region and brings locals and visitors together in this vibrant city. JIFF features live cooking demonstrations, hands-on master's classes with renowned chefs, nightly concerts with local performers, food-focused panel talks, and more than 200 participating international and local food vendors and restaurants. Don't miss the collaborative dinners with international guest chefs and local Jordanian culinary artists and, for kids, the interactive children's zones. This year's event introduces a Gastro-Diplomacy Pavilion where embassies and expat communities present their national cuisines in a celebration of cultural connection through food. Advertisement Solight Design's origami-inspired inflatable lanterns collapse for easy packing and then unfold to create cube-shaped lights that are powered by the sun. Handout EVERYWHERE A light source for off-the-grid travel Keep your tent or campsite illuminated with Solight Design's solar-powered inflatable lanterns. These lightweight origami-inspired lights — invented by Alice Min Soo Chun, a former professor of material technology at Columbia University — collapse for easy packing and then unfold to create cube-shaped lights that are powered by the sun. Each light has a small solar panel on top and, on the other side, bulbs attached to a reflective surface that casts light into the cube. The waterproof lights are made from recycled sailcloth, float on water, and come in a variety of sizes and color options. The Helix Hybrid has warm and bright-light settings and provides up to 90 lumens of light for up to 10 hours, while the SolarPuff Multicolor Solar Lantern offers the same brightness and battery life but has six color options or a rainbow setting that cycles through all those colors. The 4000 mAh MegaPuff Lantern provides 40 to 300 lumens and comes with a USB-C port for charging a smartphone or other small device while off the grid. $22-$68. Advertisement KARI BODNARCHUK Kari Bodnarchuk can be reached at