Dusk was falling on Jaffa, the oldest neighborhood in Tel Aviv, when Israeli chef Nir Zook met up with our group of six. The handsome and charismatic celebrity chef, who at the age of 42 already has restaurants, books and a TV show under his belt, has been called “one of the chefs defining modern food in Israel.”
Dressed in his chef whites, he was grasping a handful of thin branches he had foraged earlier that day. “Here, rub these between your fingers and taste,” he said, picking off a few lea...
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