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A Time to Pick Olives

November 10, 2012

Once again the olive harvest. I like to speculate that not an autumn has passed since they were first cultivated, back in obscure pre-history, that people haven’t gathered olives here in this place that I live. Taking part in this ritual makes me feel like the tiniest link in a very long chain. But the […]

Post Ramadan Post

August 26, 2012

The entire month of Ramadan has passed by and I never managed to publish a post about this very culinarily charged period. For those of you who don’t know, the month of Ramadan is observed by Muslims with daily fasting. Because the timing of Muslim holidays is calculated using a lunar calendar, the date that […]

Timeless

July 12, 2012

Living in the Galilee, I am occasionally gifted with transcendent moments of timelessness – where the landscape and the scene that unfolds within it have more to do with thousands of years of history, than the blink of an eye of the latest decades. At least once a summer, together with Balkees and Muhammad, Ron […]

A Meal With What You Have

June 17, 2012

I believe there is an art to creating a satisfying meal out of what you have in the larder. The other day, I was fortunate enough to be at my friend and culinary muse, Balkees’s home at lunch time, when she was doing just that. So what is in Balkees’s kitchen on an early summer […]

Breaking Bread in Galilee

May 3, 2012

I consider it very auspicious timing, that my new book – Breaking Bread in Galilee – A Culinary Journey into the Promised Land – has entered the world during the height of spring. These days, there is gold everywhere you look, in vast waves of wheat stalks rolling in the breeze, or shorn and flattened […]

A Culinary Tour of Nazareth for the iPhone

April 14, 2012

I am not the most technologically apt blogger out there, but when I was approached by the editor of Rama Tours to prepare a culinary tour for the iPhone, I took the opportunity to grab a foothold in the mobile world. I decided to focus my tour on Nazareth – in terms of the quality […]