Angry with Turkey? Go to the Ottoman Empire instead!

PREFACE: This post was originally posted at the end of May 2011, in Hebrew, on the lifestyle portal site www.xnet.co.il Even several months ago, when I returned from there, before the diplomatic situation deteriorated to the awful point it reached today, this article was considered to be very risky for me to publish- due to [...]

“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 [...]

Istanbul!!

Man!!  it takes a lot to surprise me, but seeing Istanbul for the first time was something i will never forget.. Ok! let me speak frankly! I had just come there directly from a 8-day shoot in Mumbai, India and words cannot describe how horrible that was.. !! So- of course, everyone always says to [...]