Archive for October, 2009

WHERE DID ALL THE LEBEN GO?

TASTES OF ISRAEL
By Gil Marks
 
     Where has all the leben gone?  There was a time, not so long ago, when an Israeli breakfast and dinner typically consisted of white bread, a few simple jellies, tomato-cucumber salad, perhaps a bowl of Shalva (a slightly sweetened puffed wheat), and a trio of leben (coagulated low-butterfat milk in [...]

SHALOM!

Shalom U’all!  Since I will be in Israel for the next month or so, I thought I would concentrate the blog on Israeli food.  I look forward to hearing your thoughts! 
Gil Marks
P.S.  I am busy editing the manuscript for my next book, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, due out from Wiley in 2010.