Be Careful What You Wish For

What do you call a restaurant-quality food business . . . without the restaurant?

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Like Tomatoes on the Vine

Happy birthday peetz

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Waiting for Boquerones

There is something godly about these fresh anchovies, that make them worth waiting for

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That's a Wrap

Imagine finishing up a creative piece without knowing what it looks like

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Whiteboard

Here it is: The Sisyphean effort to achieve a blank slate, literally

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Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog

This snap could be in the backyard of anyone I grew up with in Savannah, Georgia, but it’s actually from a trendy area of Tel Aviv

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Anyone For a Game of Chess?

Google “Chess Pie”: It has a rich, but uncertain etymology. Kinda like life itself?

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 22, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivpersonal chef, Philosophy of Food, private chef, seasonal cooking, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking, southern cooking tel aviv, southern soul food, soul food Tel AvivComment

Rhubarb

Care to argue about this word?

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 21, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood lore, food and literature, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food, southern cooking tel aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking Comments

Mortar & Pestle Time

Let’s face it: How often do you get the chance to use the term “mortar & pestle” in a sentence

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 20, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood memory, food lore, food and literature, southern cooking tel aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of FoodComment

Peanut A A

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 19, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood memory, friends and family, food culture, food history, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food, southern cooking tel aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking, soul food Tel Aviv, peanutsComment

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.

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Playing With Marbles

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

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 16, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood culture, Gourmet Comfort Food, Philosophy of Food, private chef, personal chef, southern soul food, soul food Tel Aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking Comment

A Mole in Our Midst

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"If Everybody Knows , Then Why Didn't Someone Tell Me?"

"That’s How it Goes. Everybody knows”

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 12, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood memory, food lore, southern cooking tel aviv, summer cooking Tel Aviv, slow cooking, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food, Gourmet Comfort Food

Stretchin' The Truth

You take a fairly expensive food item and you stretch it out with whatever you have around to make it go further,

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 11, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood lore, food memory, food history, Locally sourced foods, soul food Tel Aviv, southern soul food, slow cooking, summer cooking Tel Aviv, southern cooking tel aviv, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food

Compound Interest

One of my favorite things to do as part of pre-prep is to make compound butters, especially maitre d’hotel butter

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Blanche DuBois

“It means white woods.”

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 9, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood and literature, Gourmet Comfort Food, healthy cooking, Philosophy of Food, private chef, personal chef, soul food Tel Aviv, slow cooking, summer cooking Tel Aviv, southern soul food, southern cooking tel aviv

Cowboys on the Strand

Back in my teens, the butcher shop was the wild, wild west of the food market.

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"Alva, Tell Us . . ."

Fresh, beautiful-looking produce was always something of a family obsession.

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel Aviv, food philosophyMartin MelaverAugust 7, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivfood memory, friends and family, private chef, personal chef, Philosophy of Food, southern cooking tel aviv, slow cooking, soul food Tel Aviv, southern soul food

The Dough Boy That Was

So I buy my pasta now. But it’s not the same. Not even close.

comfort food, food, Food orders Tel AvivMartin MelaverAugust 6, 2020Etzlenu: Soul Food, Tel Avivhomemade baking, baked goods, hommade pasta, slow cooking, soul food Tel Aviv, southern cooking tel aviv, personal chef, private chef, Philosophy of Food

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

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