An Israel-Palestinian Peace Deal Isn’t Imminent, But a New Poll Holds Some Surprises
Get Jordan to “the damn table.”
September 2, 2016
How to Cook in Palestine.
In the mid-1930s, Erna Meyer, a Jewish physician recently arrived in the land of Israel from Nazi Germany, authored How to Cook in Palestine, the first such work to be published in the British Mandate. The book, written in Hebrew, English, and German, was geared to housewives raised in Europe who were unfamiliar with the local produce and climate and struggling to adjust to the harsh material conditions. Dana Kessler writes:
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Any rationale for secrecy appears unjustified.
But it can encourage it.
Samuel Pepys goes to shul.
How to Cook in Palestine.