Those moved by the plight of Palestinian farmers can now buy Zaytoun olive oil, harvested from groves on the West Bank.
£100 for two, with wine Four more foodie notes from the past week Freekeh The smoky grain from fair-traders Zaytoun: tastes fab and produced and sold with community spirit.
Adversity makes for unlikely allies in "Zaytoun," an odd-couple road movie set in 1982 as Israel is preparing to invade Lebanon.
"It's a great way to begin," says Pawson, 43, who is joint founder with Heather Masoud, of Zaytoun, the company which introduced the UK market to fair trade organic olive oil from Palestine.
"It was a great moment," says Pawson, "We sat in a café and talked and that was the start of Zaytoun".
For the hummus: 500g cooked chickpeas 250ml tahini 80ml lemon juice 4 cloves garlic 2 tsp sea salt 100ml ice cold water Zaytoun olive oil Plus za'atar to serve You can use 500g tinned chickpeas, but best is to cook from scratch by soaking 250g dried chickpeas overnight in water with 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda.
For the labneh: 2 tsp sea salt 1½ litres natural yoghurt Zaytoun olive oil Plus za'atar to serve Add salt to the fresh yoghurt and stir before putting into a clean muslin or cheesecloth over a bowl.
Clients that Matt's has worked with include fair trade olive oil producers Zaytoun, and renewable energy company True Energy, Greenpeace International, Action Aid.
This Christmas marked the tenth for Zaytoun, the community interest company which over the past decade has helped 2,000 farmers, bought £3.5 million worth in products from Palestinian producers and planted 8,000 new olive trees.
Both films are highly schematic, but Lemon Tree is a tough, pessimistic movie with a core of resilient hope, while Zaytoun is a piece of ecumenical wish-fulfilment.
