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Abbie Rosner's Culinary Notebook from Northern Israel
Browsing All posts tagged under »luf«
What You See
A few days ago, Balkees and I spent the day with a journalist from Israel’s top food magazine, as she prepared an article about the edible wild plants that are now in season. We started the morning in the village that Balkees grew up in, tromping through the lush greenery in the vast field behind […]
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 […]
Luf at Last
December 18, 2008
Last weekend Ron and I were guests at our very old friends’, Fatma and Abdullah, in the Bedouin village of Kaabiye. I told them about my interest in cooking luf, and their daughter Hal’la, who happened to be visiting, invited me to come to her home one day and she would show me how. This […]
The Luf Challenge
December 1, 2008
This is Luf. Now that there have been several good rains, it seems like every day a new luf plant appears in my yard. Challenging me. In traditional Galilee Arab cooking, luf is not only a delicacy, but is considered to have powerful medicinal properties. A doctor I know told me of families bringing pots […]
January 5, 2013
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