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City Paper Photo and Image Gallery: Cover Stories » Desert Harvest : 2008/05/01
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This album corresponds to the article Desert Harvest, 2008-05-01
 
  • Friday afternoon in Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem, hours before Shabbat
  • Nisim Gigi, father of Zahav manager Eilon Gigi, leads a Moroccan Shabbat dinner at this home in Ashdod.
  • Solomonov — with his wife, Mary — chats with Cook on camelback in the Negev desert.
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  • The Armenian Church of St. James. The Armenian Quarter represents roughly one-sixth of Jerusalem\'s Old City.
  • Turkish coffee in Jerusalem\'s Arab market
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  • Avner Golan heads the Kibbutz Kinneret date farm planted by his grandfather in the 1930s. After the date trees in Israel were destroyed, says Golan, his grandfather snuck into Iraq, Persia and Egypt and began smuggling tens of thousands of trees back home. They brought them across the Jordanian border in trucks, and then onto ships. Ninety percent of the dates in Israel today come from these trees.
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  • Entering Jerusalem
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  • Inside Aljeneehah Restaurant in Nazareth, a chef prepares Kibbeh, a dish Zahav will be serving in the same fashion.
  • On the street in Tel Aviv (L-R), Johnson, sous chef Sam Smith, co-owner Steve Cook and Shapiro polish off sabich sandwiches.
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  • Notes from the culinary journey, which will inspire the menu at Zahav
  • Inside her kitchen, in the town of Hadera, Malka Shlomo describes her lachuch recipe to Smith (pictured) and Johnson.
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