Episode 43 – What is Israeli food? A conversation with Gil Hovav
Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein
June 23, 2017
Category
israel
A food tour of Israel’s cities
Jewish Journal
May 16, 2016
Mediterranean cuisine is consumed with gusto all over the world. While many dishes commonly enjoyed in Israel originate elsewhere, things like hummus, falafel, kibbeh, and shakshuka have been adopted into Israeli tradition with the recent advent of “foodie-ism” by chefs all over the country.
An American burrito in Jerusalem
Eitan Arom
April 6, 2016
Much of what’s needed to supply a Mexican restaurant — vegetables and spices, for instance — can be found in the bustling Machane Yehuda market in the heart of Jerusalem.
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July 14, 2015
50 reasons why Tel Aviv is the greatest place on earth.
A road trip through Israel’s culinary revolution
Jewish Journal
June 3, 2015
The Startup Nation has morphed into the Food and Wine Nation. If you want to see how, go north.
Could an Israeli invention end cooking as we know it?
Jewish Journal
May 11, 2015
Plenty of mobile apps help consumers order meals for delivery or offer recipes.
What Israel means to me
Jewish Journal
April 19, 2013
Pinpointing what makes people so passionate about Israel is no easy thing, perhaps because there are so many options.
Holocaust survivors say Israel must do more to help them
Jewish Journal
April 3, 2013
Holocaust survivors living in Israel say the country isn\’t doing enough to help them, and some are resorting to skipping meals and medicine.
Unexpected Israeli cuisine
Jewish Journal
January 16, 2013
I\’m not sure what I expected. Hummus, certainly, but what else? Stuffed derma? Latkes? Matzah ball soup? As a native New Yorker with Ashkenazi roots, the foods I associated with being Jewish were the foods I associated with my grandparents. By extension, I suppose, I also associated these same foods with Israel, though those connections were more subconscious than explicit.
Document shows Israel counted Gazans’ calories
Jewish Journal
October 17, 2012
An Israeli document shows that Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians in Gaza would need in order to avoid malnutrition.
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