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 … Read More »
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Fig Season in the Western Galilee
I spent last weekend doing research for my book in the Western Galilee – an area of tremendous natural beauty which is quite off the tourism track, with villages that have long and illustrious histories yet are still relatively isolated from mainstream Israeli life. The foodways I was fortunate enough to encounter during this trip … Read More »