The Only 5 restaurants I will eat at in TLV!!! I’ll start with Picola Pasta
*NOTE* This post will be in 5 installments! “Oh, you’re a Chef! In Tel-Aviv! Great! Can you please recommend to us your favourite places? We heard a lot about XXXX and XXXX”……blah blah blah This is my sad fate upon people learning of my occupation. Now at the risk of sounding like a Snob, a [...]
“it’s Complicated”- Anise!! what did you THINK i was going to say?!!
I can hear it already- a deafening roar of outrage and offense, at the very mention of the dreaded word- “Anise” !! Well, sorry guys, but I am compelled to try to clear the wrongly slandered name of the sublime Anise!! First of all, you might not be aware of this, but “All Anise Is [...]
My Precious Knives!!!!
Well, I guess I don’t need to point out that I am not a typical girl- I mean, I love shoes, and don’t mind a nice session of vicious gossip with my friends (99% of whom are a bunch of cooks- Men cooks I might add) but that’s about the end of the similarities between [...]
My favourite place in Town! “gabe’s”
Well, first of all, I guess I should point out that the actual name of “Gabe’s” is in fact, “Taverna shel Gavriel” Not that this has stopped me from calling both the place, and Gabi, “Gabe” for many years now. In any case, what ever you may call it, in my opinion, it is [...]
Rice Papers- part 2- the yummy, greasy part!!
Ok!! I admit it- I’ve been little lazy in posting this part 2 of Rice Papers- But I have a good excuse! It’s the holidays here, and, I must tell you- I made the mistake of drinking RUM last night, and well, you know how that can end- And it doesn’t usually end in being [...]
Rice Papers- Chameleon of the kitchen!!
Rice papers- (did u see here before the very short clip we made in Bangkok of how they are made??) In any case they are one of my favourite ingredients- Not because of their taste, or their starring role- (In fact, quite the opposite- their role is to stay in the background- And to [...]
Rice Paper!!! what a versatile treasure!!
Khlong Toey- This market is world class. And ZERO foreigners!! this is a short clip we filmed in Khlong Toey market, in Bangkok, Thailand.. I use these rice papers for everything, from wrapping fish, crabmeat and herbs.. To outrageous, esoteric mixtures of my own, from BKK to Vietnam.. And I need these delicate rice papers [...]
2009 Oyster Season part 2
Hi again!! did you miss me?! Did you run out last night in search of a plate of oysters?! hope so! Well, as promised, I am continuing my post about oysters.. And one of the very best oysters in the world, in my opinion, is the Kumamoto. It is a tiny oyster, and almost round. [...]
2009 Oyster Season starts now! eat! eat! eat!
If there’s one thing I simply cannot get enough of- it’s oysters!! The season has just started this week, so I thought, what better time to write about the celestial joys of the noble Ostreidae ?! First of all- I find it a crying shame that many people here in Israel have never tried [...]
Barca! Barca!! BARCA!!! te amo, Barcelona!
Barcelona is a city that I had wanted to visit for a long time- For starters, it is the home of an artist who has been an idol and inspiration for me since I was a kid- the genius Antoni Gaudi. Now I know this blog is supposed to be about food..travels.. But I must [...]
