In Search of Israeli Cuisine DVD Michael Solomonov (Actor), Roger Sherman (Director)
Join Michael Solomonov, the James Beard Award-winning chef and New York Times best-selling author, on a journey to meet Israel's top chefs, home cooks, vintners, and cheese-makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today, and discover the rich and human story that emerges from their food.
The Israel-born, award-winning chef of Zahav, Michael Solomonov, offers up a tour of 70 plus diverse cultures of Israel through food. Over the past 30 years, Israel has gone from having no fine food to a food scene that is world renowned. Solomonov visits the vibrant restaurants of Tel Aviv, must-experience Jerusalem destinations and organic kitchens off the beaten track, sampling from remarkable food traditions as diverse as Moroccan, Persian, Lebanese, French, Italian and Russian.
About the Actor
The chef/guide of In Search of Israeli Cuisine is Michael Solomonov, the James Beard award winning chef/owner of Zahav and a number of other restaurants in Philadelphia and New York. His book, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking (Houghton Mifflin 2016) was released to universal praise, landing on the NYTimes bestseller list, as well as many Best Of lists. Mike was born in Israel and grew up in the States. He s smart, funny, self-deprecating, and very knowledgeable about the traditions and foods of Israel. Mike enters peoples lives, and their kitchens, and discusses their roots, inspirations, what their grandmothers cooked, how they re preserving traditions and updating recipes with global influences.
Special Features
- Over 35 Minutes of Deleted Scenes
- Media Format ā : āĀ NTSC
- Run time ā : āĀ 1 hour and 34 minutes