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Justin's Pies: Australian tasting in Israel, and it all started with Dad staying home

Between us, it's the closest you'll get there these days, but that's really not the only reason to book

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Yaniv Granot

Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 06:00 Updated: 06:53

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Lemon pie (Ronit Avidan Sheinfeld)

Combining the words "Australia" and "pie" with Google will give you 199,000,000 search results.

This sounds a bit excessive at first, probably in relation to a popular but geographically niche dish, but an initial digging into these pages puts all skeptics in proportion.

To the delicious Instagram page of Walla!

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Countless recipes naturally make up the majority of this pie chain, but here and there also relatively scholarly articles emerge on the history of the dish (delicious evidence goes back to the 2nd century AD), on the people who should be patented (probably the British, if Because there is no chance that we will enter this corner), for the comprehensive exhibition dedicated to him a few years ago in Quebec Bay and for the best places to consume it now (again, we live in a round and cornerless world).

Among other things, it states that the main purpose for which it was first born in its familiar form is, as expected, "something that will be able to hold the flesh in motion."

I think about it for a long time while I sit at home and dig with a fork and knife and also a spoon inside a refreshing Justin Winderbaum meat pie, and wonder if it would not have been better to already eat this piece with my hands, and why I had to complicate what is surely a popular and legitimate street food At the other end of the world.

Thinks, wonders and continues.

When defeated like that, nothing matters.

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Including the perfect color.

Justin's Pies (Photo: Yael Ilan)

Australian Justin and Canadian Sandra met in Israel years ago, got married, returned to Canada and decided to make aliyah about 12 years ago.

They settled in Raanana, raised five children and settled down for leisurely work, so - you knew this twist would come now, right?

- No one was surprised when the corona started making names with the same stability.

Thoughts about the house led him to enter the kitchen and stand in front of the stove, and these attempts, in turn, contributed to even more thoughts about the house.

It was a constant circle that shared frustration and longing and shared hope and creativity.

The end of this circle, fortunately for us, was the perfect dough I currently hold in my hand (indeed in my hand, I gave up on the cutlery), and the beginning of "Justin's Pies".

A taste of Australia in Israel.

Justin and the pie (Photo: Yael Ilan)

"I really missed my country and my family who are still there," he said, "I love working with food and I thought I should do something in that direction, try to bring a taste of Australia to Israel."

The first task - an ideal dough, as mentioned, was also the hardest of all.

"I worked very hard on it to get the perfect texture in the perfect thickness, for a bite that would give a little crispiness on the outside and a little softness on the inside, be present but not overshadow the filling. It took me three to four months," he described.

The breakthrough occurred during Justin's "summer vacation," which is actually a code name for the long months he spent alone in the kitchen of his trials.

"My wife was with the kids in Canada for a month, and I spent most of that time, day and night, developing the recipe and pie. It was my summer, but it was worth it."

Including self-fulfillment.

The Winderbaum family (Photo: courtesy of the photographers)

So what do you actually eat here? The menu consists of one product in a dozen rich variations. There is, among other things, a "steak pie" in a classic version ("with our famous sauce") or with a slightly stronger hand on the pepper, there is a chicken and mushroom pie or a curry seasoned with precision, asado-pie which is shredded and tender meat, a vegetarian pie laden with vegetables And a sweet star in the form of a classic apple-cinnamon pie.

The business currently operates from the family home in Raanana, and offers sweet deliveries by days and distribution areas. You get a frozen version of personal molds (NIS 25) or family molds (NIS 110) at home, turn on the oven to 190 degrees, and let your friends in for half an hour.

In return for this patience, you will get a real meal, not a micro-version that was heated and heated and heated, but something baked in front of your eyes, and came out of the oven when it was brown, crispy on the outside and hot on the inside. Is there a reason people eat it with their hands, because who has the power for table manners in front of this plate?

"Equivalent to falafel."

Justin's Pies menu

"In Australia it is the equivalent of the Israeli falafel, say," Justin explained the obsession, "eating pie after school, at football games, on the street and also in restaurants."

For now, the local target audience should make an initial acquaintance with the dish (and with the Australian customer service, which can be learned gently but honestly that it is endowed with completely different characteristics - for the better of course - from the Israeli), but there is already a base, in the form of a community of Here, and was very pleased with the news.

"When I first posted the menu, I put it on the Facebook page of Australians living in the country, and there was a lot of excitement," he described, "a friend of mine told me, 'We already have Landstone and UGG, and now we also have pie.'"

The summer vacation that kicked off the business is about to end, and Justin will return to his day job as a teacher in Kfar Saba, this time only partially.

"I came to Israel, I studied in Lewinsky, I taught, I took a break to help my wife in her real estate business, and I went back to teaching," he said, "It's fun, but you get to the point where you want to do something for yourself, to fulfill."

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