Why did one of the best cookbooks of 2023 go unnoticed? Hint: It’s Israeli.
Moshe Basson’s 'The Eucalyptus Cookbook' never made the splash it deserved
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Food Who Makes the ‘Greenest’ Dish in Jerusalem?
The drain on Jerusalem’s natural resources from religious tourism is finally acknowledged as an ecological dilemma. The Symposium on Green and Accessible Pilgrimage, which took place earlier this week, hopes to address it. The brainchild of Jerusalem’s deputy mayor, Naomi Tsur, the mission is to bring religious leaders together in cooperation to help pilgrims “leave…
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Recipes Passover Recipes From Israel’s ‘Biblical Chef’
Allison Kaplan Sommer took a foraging walk with Israeli Chef Moshe Basson. Check out what she learned here and read on for Passover recommendations and recipes from the chef. Maror When most of us think of bitter herbs on the seder table, we think of bottled beet colored or white horseradish bought at the grocery…
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News Top Chef Forages for Ingredients and More
Chef Moshe Basson cuts a striking yet down-to-earth figure with his long, thin salt-and-pepper braid and chiseled face. I find him on a lush hillside near the entrance to Jerusalem, stripping olives from a tree. Plunking the olives into an old plastic grape juice bottle, he explains that in March, the tail end of olive…
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