Israeli chefs stir up world food trends

New York Times credits Eyal Shani (Miznon) with bringing the cauliflower back in vogue.

By Viva Sarah Press  for Israel21c

The gastronomy world is taking cues from Israeli chefs on food trends for 2016.

Most recently, Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani was credited by the New York Times with bringing cauliflower back onto fashionable tables.

“The whole roasted cauliflower (along with the single giant beet and the overgrown carrot) recently surfaced as a favorite chef’s trick. It is the centerpiece of menus at restaurants … [Shani’s] ‘baby cauliflower,’ now famous, blanched in salted water and then oiled and charred in a wood-fired oven, started the craze, which has been picked up by the likes of Jamie Oliver, Rachael Ray and Giada De Laurentiis,” according to the NYT report.  “It has also become one of the defining dishes of modern Israeli cooking.”

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The Environmentally Conscious Jewish Home

For Jewish families, caring for the environment could be part of a wider consciousness of living in a world that is a divine gift.

By Deborah R. Fields for MyJewishLearning.com   
Alongside the obvious benefit of sustaining the planet, the environmentally conscious home provides its occupants with a sense of accomplishment and even pride in personally doing something that will maintain, even better, one’s world. For the believing Jew, this feeling of well-being should be all the more gratifying, for preserving the planet is not an end in itself, but part of a greater plan that encompasses the whole of one’s existence. This greater plan is laid out in Jewish law, based in the Torah. One may feel doubly rewarded by the overall satisfaction of living a life of mitzvot [commandments], and, within this context, living an environmentally sound existence.

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JNF - More than just the little blue Tzedaka boxes

The Jewish National Fund has come a long way since is original mission of planting trees in Israel. Education, water conservation, leadership training and so much more. Check them out.



JNF in Numbers-2015 from Jewish National Fund on Vimeo.

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