A brief meditation on the bias of second-fiddle words

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Ya got cha pickled eggs, 'n' pickled shrimp, 'n' pickled okra

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Top 5 Customer Traits

A quixotic effort to infuse Tel Aviv culture with a tad of soul

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Passover Seder #2, or the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dinner Night

A modest proposal for changing the Seder #2 fare

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Horseradish: Hands Down Best Dish on Passover

(not that it has much competition, frankly)

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Gettin' Kulcha

If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time

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"Not Cheap, But Worth Every Penny"

A Meditation on one guest’s unsolicited review.

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You May Ask Yourself . . .

My God, What Have I Done

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"Balled" Peanuts

A far cry from balling the Jack

Drinks, Drinks, Drinks, and Not a Drop of Water

(with apologies to Coleridge)

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Who by Fire

(me, for one)

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Goldilocks

“Please don’t make anything too spicy or too sweet.”

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"When a Guest Doesn't Love an Entree . . ."

Can’t keep my mind on nuthin’ else (with apologies to Percy Sledge)

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Comfort Food?

Sometimes there seem to be voids that nothing can fill

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The Simple, Profound Act of Civility

(I’m afraid it may be a lost art.)

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Shame on Me

Martin, a good friend of mine said last year, I’ve found a good source for sustainable packaging.

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"Buddy Can You Spare a Rib?"

I really have no business cooking this dish in Tel Aviv

Peanut A A

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Some Like It Hot

One of my absolute top frustrations about cooking soul food in Tel Aviv is that the vocabulary, not to mention the interest in and tolerance of all things spicy is VERY LIMITED.

Martin MelaverAugust 18, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivspicy cuisine, food truck dreams, food memory, food culture, food history, favorite foods, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food, southern cooking tel aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking, soul food Tel AvivComment

Playing With Marbles

Blind-baking a pie shell for a key lime pie hit me from out of nowhere.

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OPEN MONDAY — FRIDAY

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Sderot Chen 51 Tel Aviv, Israel
שדרות חן 51 תל אביב, ישראל

+972-54-236-0781
Martin@etzlenu.com