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In Defense of the Carob
The ancient Levantine fruit’s best uses.
This evening the minor holiday of Tu b’Shvat begins, and some Jews will mark it by eating carob. Although Meir Soloveichik has argued that, thanks to this Ashkenazi custom, the “much-maligned fruit” became “an ultimate embodiment of Jewish vitality and endurance,” he admits that it is “remarkably unpleasant to eat.” The food writer Paola Gavin defends the culinary merits of the pods of the carob tree, and discusses their history:
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In Defense of the Carob
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