Bourekas

Stewart: Bagels and Bourekas

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January 29th 2008
When I visit someplace new, I like to see and I like to eat. For the eating part, I go for street food: cheap, tasty, and local. Here that means falafel and shwarma (the Israeli version of gyros, minus the yogurt sauce, naturally, which wouldn’t be kosher). More about them some other time. Here I want to talk about the bakeries. It’s hard to find a stand-alone bakery in the States anymore ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more