Category Archives: Food in Jerusalem
Success is Brewing
The Lone Tree microbrewery in Gush Etzion is trying to raise the bar for the country’s beer industry. for original article click here. Otherwise read below… By Amihai Zippor 10/01/2010 Giving tours at the Lone Tree microbrewery in Gush Etzion, Susan Levine is often asked a very basic question: “Who does the brewing?” When a [...]
Dark Chocolate Heaven
The Middle East’s only Bean to Bar Chocolate factory click here for original article By Amihai Zippor (Jerusalem Post) In 2008 Jo Zander was anticipating roasting cacao beans in the pantry of his Ma’aleh Hever home just past Hebron, anticipating his next batch of dark chocolate. Looking outside his window, the micro-batch chocolate maker saw an [...]
Behind the sushi
Kosher sushi? I never even had sushi until i was 26 and a friend from Yeshiva made it for me back in Boston. Growing up it was always one of those foreighn substances that had an imaginary ‘trief’ symbol and so i never touched it, even if it was rabbinically approved. However, today i’m all [...]
Kosher Sushi in Jerusalem
Kosher sushi is rolling out across the capital! click here for original post BY Amihai Zippor Eighteen years ago Boaz Tsairi opened Sakura, the first kosher sushi restaurant in Jerusalem. But after five years of hard work in a small market, he went non-kosher. “It was very difficult back then,” says Tsairi, relating how, despite [...]
The Fish Eating Sharon
I had a dream recently I met Ariel Sharon but not under the usual circumstances. He was surveying a scene in the desert. I happened to be in the area. When I came upon him, he looked a little deranged. He was out of breath. His head was nearly shaved and his face was stern [...]