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Glasserie Just Became a Bit More Israeli
It seems that every New York restaurant critic is focused these days on Glasserie, a Middle Easter restaurant — with a new Israeli chef.
Where Haute Cuisine, Green Agriculture and Jewish Education Meet
Fifteen years ago it would have seemed absurd. Between 10 and 20 English speaking young adults, mostly from the United States, living in geodesic domes on an organic farm in Israel, growing heirloom variety vegetables for a posh, up-and-coming restaurant in Tel Aviv’s trendy Yaffo district. But as the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl once declared, “if you will it, it is no dream” and indeed, green agriculture, haute cuisine and diaspora Jewish education have all caught on in the holy land and are even finding exciting points of intersection.