Episode 43 - What is Israeli Food?

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Everybody who comes to Israel adores the food - it's colorful, diverse and multi-cultured. As Israelies, we grow up eating Tunisian, Romanian, Iraqi and Italian food, and many other cuisines - sometimes all in the same week. And for us it's quite normal. So normal, perhaps, that we rarely stop to ask ourselves: Is there even such a thing as Israeli cuisine? To try and answer this question, Two Nice Jewish Boys called upon the master of Israeli food, Gil Hovav. Every Israeli household has been eating from Gil's plate for over two decades. He's starred in numerous televised cooking shows and food documentaries. He is a man of the world, an author, a lover of Hebrew (and Arabic!), the great-grandson of Ben Yehuda (the reviver of the Hebrew language) and above all - one helluva mench. Join us for a gastronomic episode. We also played an amazing song by Hagar Levy! Check her our on Youtube or Bandcamp.

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Noor Minninger, and I'm Aiton Weinstein.
0:11.0	For decades upon decades throughout the existence of our young, ambitious country,
0:17.0	one big existential question persisted. Many wise men and women have tried to find the answer, yet failed.
0:24.6	But for any Israeli, this question stands at the core of their very existence.
0:30.6	What is Israeli food?
0:32.6	Is our national dish hummus or falafel?
0:36.6	And are those even ours?
0:39.0	What makes our food special and why?
0:41.3	And can an endless blend of cultures, herbs, and secret ingredients all be part of one coherent food culture?
0:48.1	To answer these mind-boggling questions we have with us today, one of Israel's greatest experts in food and food culture.
0:55.9	Gil Chovav has been a regular guest in every Israeli household for over 20 years.
1:01.4	He's a pioneer of the televised cooking shows here in Israel.
1:04.9	He's a food journalist, an author of many cooking books and some novels as well.
1:09.7	Gil is also a lover of the Hebrew language,
1:12.7	son of legendary news anchor Moshe Chovav and great-grandson of one of the most important
1:17.8	figures in modern Zionism. Eliasir Ben Yehuda, Reviver of the Hebrew Language.
1:23.6	This podcast is made in cooperation with the Jewish Journal, www.jew.
1:28.3	com.
1:29.3	Also in cooperation with Secret Tel Aviv, Israel's largest online social network community in English.
1:35.3	Just look for the group on Facebook or visit them at secrettelive.com.
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