Comments on: Israeli Salad recipe

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:16:27 +0000

As much as I enjoy your site, I can’t for the life of me imagine from where you got your information regarding the availability of vegetables 10 – 15 years ago. I’ll be 57 this fall, grew up in Detroit, spent every childhood summer in the coal mining boonies of southwestern Pennsylvania, and have lived in NYC all of my adult life and have never, EVER been to a grocery–even a small one–in which lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber weren’t simultaneously available under one roof. Granted, good (“good,” mind you) olive oil was much less easily found but altogether unavailable? No way–every supermarket carried it, and that’s discounting ethnic neighborhoods where a much better selection could be found.

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pavlina chakarova | blog — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:59:48 +0000

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By: Young Chef

Young Chef — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:40:08 +0000

I just wanted to point out that Israel is a 60 year old country his salad is without a doubt not from Israel. In fact its internationally known as Shepard Salad. Some of these other recipes do not belong to Israel as well . (i.e Humus, Tahina, Falafel all belong to Lebanon.) Just wanted to clear the air.

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Falafel with Dada, Hummus with Nasrallah : The Hummus Blog — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:08:45 +0000

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By: maman

maman — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:31:58 +0000

Your hummus recipes are great. We have been eating it here in Australia at least since the 1950′s.

Now also a question, can you make it with chickpea flour? Does the it have to be cooked?

But Shooky, Shooky, you’ve got to get out more.

Have you read cookbooks from early 20th century. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber are there. And in the gardening books too, even the ones used in the primary schools.

Chinese gardeners were famous for the quality and huge variety of the vegetables they grew here in Australia. They arrived early in the 1800′s, part of the Gold Rush. US experience is probably the same. And in the UK expats returning from o/s would be hoping to find foodstuffs they had enjoyed in their postings.

Didn’t tomatoes come to Europe from the Americas, Columbus and all that?

What is just so wonderful is the openess of people to new tastes and experiences all over the world, all through history!

By: shooky

shooky — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:53:22 +0000

Not at all. Most of the fruits and vegetables eaten in the UK, for example, are imported and 20 years ago were rare to non existent. In the US things were pretty much the same, outside California.

By: jf

jf — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:16:52 +0000

“True, in most countries until 10-15 years ago, there’s no way you could find vegetables like lettuce, cucumber and tomato in the same greengrocery.”

Now you are sarcastic, right?