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Lo, the Fall is Here
On a recent, short visit to the US East Coast, I was treated to the first signs of another brilliant autumn. Now that I’m home, my feet are comfortably back in flip flops and the main indication that summer is behind us is the supplement of a jacket and another blanket at the end of the […]
No Rain, No Luf
November 23, 2013
It is dry here. So dry. By this time of year, we could have expected several serious bouts of rain, and at least a stirring of growth in the brown earth. Instead we get the vaguest of clouds and downpours of thirty seconds that barely darken the sidewalk. On a walk last weekend in the […]
Long-lost Relations
November 9, 2013
Last week I got a call that was entirely unexpected, from a man inquiring about a culinary tour. Nothing unusual about that. But then he went on to explain that we are, in fact, related – that my mother’s grandmother and his father’s grandmother were sisters. My mother does not have a large family, and […]
Green or Black?
October 4, 2013
Living by Galilee Seasonality is full of ritual – with the same tasks carried out year after year under a delightfully never-exhausted series of circumstances. Now, after the drenching of our first substantial rain, it is time to harvest olives. The first green olives are for curing, and later on, when the fruit ripens and […]
Roots are What Sustain Us
August 13, 2013
At this point in my life, birthdays are an opportunity to indulge in whatever I desire, and this year, not surprisingly, it was to spend time in the Western Galilee. Maybe I was a Crusader in a previous life, or a farmer whose world view was bound by sage-redolent hills and the shining expanse of […]
The Hakura
February 1, 2013
I recently received a telephone call from a man named Adel, from the nearby Bedouin village of Ayedat. He is in the final stages of submitting his master’s thesis and needed help with editing the English abstract. I frequently edit English texts on you-name-the-topic, but when he told me the subject of his thesis, I […]
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 […]
Defying Closure
September 13, 2012
Looking out my window at the full-grown green olives weighing down the branches of our tree, I am reminded that the Jewish New Year does not begin neatly at the end of one traditional agricultural year and the beginning of another. These olives, last of the summer fruit to ripen, will only be harvested in […]
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 […]
Galilee Seasonality 
October 25, 2014
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