Breaking Away (1979) was one of those great movies that never really made it beyond Sunday television, only grossing a miserable $17,000 on its opening night. Nevertheless it left the world a better place with a wider, sympathetic and humorous view of Italian culture at a time when the
The ‘Sustainable’ Cheese Mini Croissant This is one of those recipes that was created to reduce waste by using up expired pottles of cottage cheese along with the rag ends of hard cheeses that always seem to get lost and disappear somewhere in the dark recesses of our fridges. It
Across the Mediterranean and Middle East there is a common culinary delicacy: known to all, claimed by some and made possible only by the movement of New World. Foods to the Old World by Spanish Colonialism. The two most important ingredients of this dish, tomato and peppers/paprika, were plundered
Sweet breads come in a variety of shapes, flavours and sizes, and their singular purpose everywhere is to bring you closer to that warmer spot somewhere nearer to heaven itself. Brioche, kurtosh, doughnuts or even a Sally Lunn at your local school tuck shop in the good old days were
Rotolo Di Spinaci Rotolo is a lesser-known Italian pasta dish traditional to the region of Tuscany. Everyone is well acquainted with the popular filled pasta dishes such as tortellini and ravioli; very few have heard of rotolo, but with over three hundred different types of pasta and pasta dishes in
Date and Coconut Slice sounds nice After three posts of fish and one of salad dressings, it’s time to wash our hands well and try an all-rounder dessert that will be desirable to all age groups and foodies alike. This coconut and date delish is served up on a
Take a good peek at this. Another 8 days after the date of my second COVID-19 inoculation from Pfizer as shown on this certificate and I am clinically guaranteed to be 95% safe from COVID-19 infection for all of six months. Which mutation will it be effective against? Who really
Antony Blinken, the new US Secretary of State, has already indicated President Biden’s intent to restart the forever Israeli/Palestinian ‘peace process’ known affectionately to all as the ‘two state solution’. This paradigm for solving the intractable hundred-year conflict has clearly failed by all measurable parameters and appears to
Summer Vinaigrettes and Dressing Up Just as we doll ourselves up to get an edge, make ourselves more attractive and nuance our appearance, such is the subtle role of salad dressings and vinaigrettes vis-à-vis the summer salad. Obviously salad vegetables and greens have their own flavours and fragrances and combining
In March 2021 Israel heads into its fourth general election in just two years and with its perennial Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu facing a number of criminal charges and accusations of impropriety, it’s pretty difficult to make north or south of the local ‘political map’ for both Israelis
Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Israel has a problem (that’s an understatement): wherever you throw a stone, wherever you spit or poke around in the dirt a little you might find something interesting. Israel has been populated by many different peoples over so many centuries so everything is
This will be the last entree dish in my fishy trifecta. Gravlax is a fish dish native to the Nordic regions and is made by curing salmon with salt and sugar, and flavoured with other herbs and spices. Gravlax, like smoked salmon, is eaten as finger food or as an
Classier than a sausage sizzle. Seared Sesame Tuna the red meat from the deep. Seared Sesame Tuna Pan-seared Tuna coated in Sesame seeds. Another delicacy which is easy to prepare, both tasty and stunningly presentable. Seared Tuna is generally associated with Japanese cuisine. The Sesame coating and accompanying Wasabi Mayonnaise
Israel kicked off its Corona COVID-19 inoculation campaign with a bang in the last week of December 2020, ratcheting it up to an incredible 150,000 inoculations per day. This dizzy pace has carried on unabated for the last three weeks, with almost two million members of the public already
Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Ceviche sounds much more appetising to the ear than macerated fish As I have written previously I try to keep my column at the very least loosely connected to the culinary delights and food sources of the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. Recently I
Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Moussaka the Greek Med. Shepherds Pie. Twenty-first century Greece is but a mere shadow of what was once one of the historic influences that shaped Western civilisation as we know it. Geographically truncated from both Alexander’s (Macedon Kingdom) and Byzantium’s heydays and
