30: Food Fight
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Forget politics, forget territorial disputes, forget religion. Our new episode explores the real Middle Eastern battleground - food.
Food, it turns out, is a serious business. And as we recently came to appreciate, it can lead folks to embark on all kinds of unlikely crusades. In today’s episode we tell two stories, from almost diametrically opposed perspectives, about the ways in which recognition and pride matter, especially when it comes to what we eat and drink. The first, about a Jerusalemite’s quirky liquid obsession, couldn’t be more local, whereas the second is an outsider’s take – the impressions of a visiting radio icon on her first trip to the region.
The original music in “The Pitcher” was composed and performed by Ari Wenig. The final song, “Hummus Metamtem” (or “Hummus Makes You Stupid“), is by Yehoshua Sofer. The episode also features music by Yochai Maital, Kevin MacLeod, Bachar Mar-Khalife, Ibrahim Maalouf, Arthur Oskan and Hadag Nahash. It was mixed by Sela Waisblum.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Israel Story listeners, it's Mishii. |
| 0:04.6 | So Saturday, May 13th was, wait for it, International Homus Day. |
| 0:10.4 | And that of course means one thing and one thing only. |
| 0:13.8 | In opportunity, no, in obligation, to replay our 2017 episode, Food Fight, which is all |
| 0:21.2 | about Homus. |
| 0:22.9 | Here it is, and hope you celebrate the cherished chickpeas in your life. |
| 0:30.1 | For lack of a better way to describe it, I'd say that my high school English class was |
| 0:36.8 | more of an exercise in shelling, blasting, and precision artillery. |
| 0:41.2 | Repeat. |
| 0:42.0 | Than in grammar, vocab, and reading comprehension. |
| 0:44.9 | He's hooked. |
| 0:45.9 | Math. |
| 0:46.4 | Math. |
| 0:47.2 | Picture. |
| 0:47.9 | Picture. |
| 0:49.0 | Umbrella. |
| 0:50.1 | Umbrella. |
| 0:51.7 | Okay, let me back up. |
| 0:53.1 | Good. |
| 0:53.7 | On September 1st, 1998, I found myself walking into a new school |
| 0:58.4 | on the first day of 10th grade, not knowing a soul. |
| 1:02.2 | One of my first friends was another new kid. |
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