After quite a few small initiatives, festival buds and a relatively hesitant return to routine, Israeli Culinary is back to celebrate and huge, with the Israeli Cuisine Festival, which will be sponsored by American Express and will include a whole month of equally culinary events all over the country.
The festival, which will continue throughout September, will include a wide range of events of all kinds.
There are festive meals by the leading chefs in Israel, special concept meals, culinary tours around the country, culinary weekends in hotels, lectures, Israeli olive oil events, local raw material celebrations and Michelin pop up by chef Gal Ben Moshe.
Behind the festival are the culinary entrepreneur David Kishka, and Nirit Weiss, who is also responsible for quite a few major culinary events that have dealt with promoting the Israeli culinary world. The two have joined American Express and Yoni Feingold's tomix content platform, through which it will be possible to book seats for all events.
"As someone who lives the culinary world on a daily basis for his extraordinary achievements, as well as for the difficulties that challenge him - we are very excited," Weiss and Kishka said.
"We believe in the power of culinary to lead a culture of diversity and creativity, and we know as a fact that strong cuisine and the creation of 'gastro-tourism' have the power to economically and socially strengthen cities and countries - we have seen this happen all over the world, from old Italy and France to Copenhagen and Pro. "An exceptional local cuisine, and we are proud to define it as a 'culture', and to promote it through a value platform that provides a platform and livelihood for all the wonderful people and businesses that are the glorious Israeli cuisine. We can not wait for the day that outside tourists come to celebrate with us."
Comes from Berlin.
Chef Gal Ben Moshe, Photo: Ben Fox
So after all the festive announcements, what exactly is going on at the festival?
The answer is a lot.
Pay attention to the list of events
The festival will be opened by a special pop-up by Israeli chef Gal Ben Moshe, chef of the Michelin-starred Prism restaurant in Berlin.
Ben Moshe will hold a 17-course pop-up meal at "Reviva - Second Floor", including the restaurant's flagship dishes in Berlin, next to the six-glass wine matching menu of Recanati Winery.
November 10-15.
790 NIS per diner
In addition, there will be a number of themed meals that deal with the question "What is Israeli cuisine in general?"
Chef Tomer Tal will embark on a journey following the culinary story of Jaffa through a special meal to be held at his restaurant George and John at the Drisco Hotel.
The sane Avivit Priel (Ozaria) and Luna Zreik (Luna Bistro in Nazareth) created a joint meal on the purity of coexistence, each of which will give its own different interpretation to the same raw material.
Another series of workshops to be held is located at the Dan Gourmet "and engage versatility of Israeli cuisine - Ariel Rosenthal and Orly wonders Bronstein entirely humus meeting, Dr. Bozena Bishara, an Arab food workshop, Chef Avi Steinitz with Jewish cooking workshop and more.
In addition, myrtle Shmueli will hold a tour Culini in Ajami and through it will reveal the fascinating history of the neighborhood and Chef Elias Matar will take a culinary tour of Wadi Nissans.
Chef Avivit Priel, Photo: Abigail Uzi
Using only local raw materials:
Ezra Kedem - will celebrate 30 years of Arcadia in his studio in the Jerusalem mountains.
Chef Anar Ben Rafael (Alter) will strip the raw materials from his farm, and in each dish will give the center of the stage to one raw material.
Chef Shirel Berger (opa) will hold a picnic at the organic farm for the shift: a tour, picking, tasting from the oven and more surprises.
Chef Nir Mesika will present at Timna a delicious meal of six Pharm to Table dishes with the farmers of Aleh Aleh.
Chef Assaf Sri (Plant Plant in Jerusalem) will host a special ground meal at the Mahniuda Group's plant.
Chef Oved Alfia's ultimate Israeli breakfast, which connects with the best farmers and producers - will open to the public for the first time to guests from outside - at the prestigious Dan Tel Aviv Hotel.
Lifts to the Israeli distilleries in Basta - Julius, Sternlicht, Eyal Drori, Pelter, Thinkers and Hollander will gather for the first time under one roof.
Tavern 2021.
Opening event of a new food fair at Adanya Jerusalem - The best Israeli manufacturers will present their wares at a fair to be held at the new deli established by Chef Nadav Malin, one of the founders of the Slow Food movement in Israel.
Chef Nir Levy (Jerusalem Fringe) Training and speaking of the Jerusalem Talbiyeh Group will offer Milk & Honey evenings with a menu that combines raw materials from local beehives, local dairies and local distilleries.
Jaco Street, Photo: Anatoly Michaelo
Roots work:
Chef Ran Shmueli will host chef Hila Alpert in Claro on a journey through the history of Israeli olive oils.
Dishes and stories - at the first Amex Four Foodies event in Israel.
Chef Sharon Cohen will have Shabbat with a fish meal at Django - a meal that begins with its Persian roots and passes through his native landscape in the Jerusalem mountains.
A celebration of local fish and herbs from the Jerusalem mountains accompanied by a menu of Judean mountains wines.
Israeli wine from the 19th century to the present day - Aviram Katz will lead a guided tasting of wines that represent stations in the evolution of Israeli wine.
From the Carmel wineries to the White Revolution and the endemic varieties.
Chef Erez Komorowski cooks at home as a gift and talks about the history of Israeli cuisine.
Cook and bake the entire distance between the dish and the chopped liver.
Jacko Street's eligible chef - will return to the restaurant's happy first days.
Timna Restaurant, Photo: Jonathan Or Hof
Culinary weekends with huge chefs at Dan
Hotels
Dan
Hotels invites to special culinary weekends with the star chefs of Israeli cuisine: Chef Haim Cohen will be hosted by Chef Roi Antebi at King David (18.11), Chef Ran Shmueli will be hosted by Israeli chef Golan at Dan Acadia (25.11) and Chef Raz Rahav will be hosted by Chef Daniel Fogel in Dan Caesarea (4.12).
During the weekends guests will be invited to a series of special meals with the chefs on Thursday evenings.
The next day, the perfect Israeli breakfast will be served with the best artisanal produce from Israeli farmers, curated by each host chef in each hotel.
And for dessert - a variety of content and workshops: market tours, tasting of olive oils, wines and distilleries, lectures by food people and more and more.
For the full list of events and reservations