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My Cup of Tea
November 22, 2011
In our ongoing conversation about the foods of the Galilee, my close friend Balkees Abu Rabieh and I recently had a particularly enlightening chat about tea. Her mother-in-law, Balkees told me, meticulously picks the various herbs that grow in the garden outside her house – sage, zaatar, zuta (white savory), louisa (lemon verbena), chamomile – even rose […]
Bagels With a Twist
September 19, 2010
Every family has their Yom Kippur fast-breaking tradition, and ours involves a spread of bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon, pickled herring, etc. This is a nod to the tradition that I grew up with in the United States, and homage to my grandfather, who was in the deli business, and whose dining room table never […]
A Foraging Celebration
January 20, 2010
Yet another rainy day and we can’t believe our good fortune – this has been the wettest winter for years and the landscape is celebrating. The hills are lush and bright with wild flowers. And of course, for foragers, there is a bounty of edible wild plants to pick. We started the wild asparagus season […]
Culinary Tours of the Galilee Launched!
February 23, 2009
How pleased I am that Culinary Tours of the Galilee has been officially launched, and in such an auspicious way. Over one week, I led two groups, both through the US Embassy, thanks to my wonderful new colleague and friend Bob, who is officially in charge of the general wellbeing of the embassy staff, but […]
Why Can’t We Cook Together?
January 9, 2009
These past weeks I’ve been feeling too disheartened to write, but the outings I had yesterday and today, investigating places for my culinary tours, did much to lift my spirits. I started Thursday morning at Lavona Grove, on an exceptionally beautiful slope overlooking the Sea of Galilee. That morning, missiles from Lebanon had hit sites […]
May 3, 2012
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