Middle Eastern cuisine treats pumpkin as a vegetable, and the concept of using canned pumpkin puree for desserts doesn’t exist. Pumpkin...

We always love to end our meals with something sweet, and in the summer, our dessert usually includes fruit cake. This is the cake our...

Knafeh is one of the desserts that people in Israel are willing to stand in long lines or drive far to bakeries in Arabic villages for....

Shawarma is one of the most popular street foods in Israel and in Levantine Arab countries. The word shawarma means turning- a reference...

Lately, the internet is exploded with sweet baked goods recipes made with tahini. It almost seemed like a new revelation, that tahini has...

Once upon a time, Jaffa oranges were the icon that was widely associated with Israel. This citrus, named after the historic port city,...

This stew of lentil and rice is the ultimate Middle Eastern comfort food. The beauty of this dish is in its simple ingredients, that are...

Growing up in the small town of Rehovot, I often joined my mom on her trip to the local shuk (open-air market). She would speed walk...

Everything tastes better with tahini, nobody in Israel would argue that. Israeli kids have their first tahini taste in their baby food...

Halvah is the crumbly dense Arab confection made with tahini and sugar. A truly delicious halvah (halvah means “sweet” in Arabic) is...

Israeli are mad about burekas - a puff pastry filled with savory stuffing. Stroll down the open-air markets in Tel Aviv or Ramla, and...

Pita, or flatbread, is the most common type of bread in the Middle East. I remember baking pita at a very young age at the Israeli...

We rarely made our own hummus at home when we lived in Israel. Why? —because it is available fresh and delicious in many hummus joints,...

A tahini loaf has come to be the Passover bread in many Israeli households— as one of this holiday’s rituals is to refrain from eating...