{"id":2263,"date":"2019-11-15T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/druzeyurta.com\/a-taste-of-druze-cuisine\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:47:00","slug":"a-taste-of-druze-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/druzeyurta.com\/he\/a-taste-of-druze-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of Druze Cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/food\/articles\/taste-of-druze-cuisine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Israel has the third largest Druze population in the world, after Syria and Lebanon. By the latest estimate, there are approximately 143,000 members of this unique religious and ethnic group in Israel\u2014mostly in the north, particularly in the Galilee and the Golan Heights, with some also living around Haifa. For many Israeli Jews, Druze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/03\/21\/5-facts-about-israeli-druze-a-unique-religious-and-ethnic-group\/\">religion and culture<\/a> is a bit of a mystery. But Druze food is widely known and beloved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>After having fallen in love with the giant Druze pitot, filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strained_yogurt\">labneh<\/a> (strained yogurt) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabbouleh\">tabbouleh<\/a>, sold at any Tel Aviv food market by women in traditional Druze garb, I decided to venture to the north of Israel this fall to get a closer look\u2014and taste. I joined a culinary tour of the Druze villages of the northern part of the Golan Heights, led by Efrat Moskovich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Moskovich is a graphic designer and food blogger, and founder of the Hebrew-language blog <a href=\"https:\/\/leharshim.com\/\">How to Impress Your Mother-in-Law<\/a>). She lives in Moshav Yonatan in the Golan Heights and did her first tour in the area just for her friends. But they loved it so much that she turned it into a business: Now Moskovich leads tours about twice a month (in Hebrew only), each one including up to 20 people, most of whom are Israeli Jews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>\u201cWe are neighbors,\u201d Moskovich told me when I asked about her relationship to the Druze community. \u201cI know many Druze, our family doctor is Druze. Living in the Golan, we live together and we work together and I am fascinated by their culture and food\u2014that\u2019s why I decided to build a tour that shows people the wonders of the Druze cuisine in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"InsetImg InsetImg--right InsetImg--undefined \">\n<div class=\"InsetImg__container relative w100\">\n<div class=\"pointer bg-color-transparent\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<picture><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Img pointer absolute t0 r0 l0 w100 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/6a4881fb380894305e8ebaee8864e2e17e8db0c2-400x602.png?resize=1200%2C1806&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(maxWidth: 768px) 768px, (maxWidth: 1080px) 1080px, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/6a4881fb380894305e8ebaee8864e2e17e8db0c2-400x602.png?w=768&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 768w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/6a4881fb380894305e8ebaee8864e2e17e8db0c2-400x602.png?w=1080&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1080w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/6a4881fb380894305e8ebaee8864e2e17e8db0c2-400x602.png?w=1200&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1200w\" alt=\"The Druze village Mas\u2019ade, viewed from the settlement Nimrod\u00a0 (Photo: Efrat Moskovich)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1806\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"InsetImg__caption-container graebenbach font-300\"><span class=\"InsetImg__caption color-gray-darkest text-article-details-xs font-300\">The Druze village Mas\u2019ade, viewed from the settlement Nimrod\u00a0 (Photo: Efrat Moskovich)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>On our tour we visited the four remaining Druze settlements in the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights\u2014Majdal Shams, Mas\u2019ade, Buq\u2019ata, and Ein Qiniyye\u2014whose population altogether is about 23,000. While the Druze of the Galilee are Israeli citizens and serve in the Israeli army, the majority of Druze in the Golan Heights adopted permanent residency but refuse Israeli citizenship, and instead retain Syrian citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Our first station was Naseba Samara\u2019s place in Buq\u2019ata. It\u2019s not a restaurant as such, but more of a cultural center in which Samara\u2014a local entrepreneur and raconteur\u2014welcomes groups for traditional Druze home cooking, as well as stories about her culture. She welcomes families and groups from all over the world\u2014Israelis as well as tourists. Visitors can book a whole event, like the one Moskovich took her group to, or can order takeout or eat there, providing the place isn\u2019t fully booked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>For lunch we had two kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fatayer\">fatayer<\/a> (a savory stuffed pastry), one with spinach and one with potatoes; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mujaddara\">mujaddara<\/a> (a rice and lentil dish); and grape leaves stuffed with rice, among other dishes. This particular tour was vegetarian, to suit its guests. Had it not been, we might have sampled <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maqluba\">maqluba<\/a> (a rice and meat dish served upside-down), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kibbeh\">kubbeh<\/a> (bulgur patties stuffed with meat), and other local meat dishes as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>After lunch, we moved into Samara\u2019s parlor, where she and others told us of local culture. She told us of her groundbreaking business endeavors as a woman in conservative Druze society, about the Shouting Hill (a hill in Majdal Shams where people used to talk to their relatives on the Syrian-controlled side using megaphones, before the advent of video chats), and about the Druze belief in reincarnation. Her friend Jamila\u2019s 4-year-old grandson is something of an Israeli celebrity since a TV documentary revealed that he didn\u2019t talk until he was 2 years old, and suddenly, instead of Arabic, he started speaking fluent English with a distinct British accent, while none of his family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/druze-toddler-amazes-experts-by-speaking-english-without-having-learned-it\/\">understood him<\/a>. Jamila came over and told us about her grandson, whose family believes he was British in a previous lifetime. Samara and her friends told us stories while everybody passed around a cup of mate with a little metal straw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Mate (yerba mate tea) is a South American infused drink that Druze communities in Syria, Lebanon, and the Golan Heights consume daily, as part of a social tradition. The custom started when Syrians and Lebanese who moved to Argentina during the 19th century discovered it and brought it back home. The first thing guests are offered when entering a Druze home in the Golan is mate, which the hosts and guests share from the same cup. As Samara explained, it is an integral part of the Golan Druze\u2019s lifestyle, as we could clearly see on our next station: the Druze farmer\u2019s market next to Nabi Ya\u2019furi\u2014the tomb of a Druze holy man called Ya\u2019furi. The market is just a small row of little stands selling local produce, homemade honey and fig jam, spices, pickled baby eggplants stuffed with nuts, labneh balls in olive oil, and of course mate and mate paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"InsetImg InsetImg--left InsetImg--undefined \">\n<div class=\"InsetImg__container relative w100\">\n<div class=\"pointer bg-color-transparent\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<picture><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Img pointer absolute t0 r0 l0 w100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b28661ea4119bccdfb8471ad11063188fac8a1e1-500x334.png?resize=500%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(maxWidth: 768px) 768px, (maxWidth: 1080px) 1080px, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b28661ea4119bccdfb8471ad11063188fac8a1e1-500x334.png?w=768&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 768w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b28661ea4119bccdfb8471ad11063188fac8a1e1-500x334.png?w=1080&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1080w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b28661ea4119bccdfb8471ad11063188fac8a1e1-500x334.png?w=1200&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1200w\" alt=\"Jars of labneh balls in olive oil, and nuts in honey at the Druze farmers market next to Nabi Ya\u2019furi (Photo: Efrat Moskovich)\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"InsetImg__caption-container graebenbach font-300\"><span class=\"InsetImg__caption color-gray-darkest text-article-details-xs font-300\">Jars of labneh balls in olive oil, and nuts in honey at the Druze farmers market next to Nabi Ya\u2019furi (Photo: Efrat Moskovich)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>\u201cThere are certain things that are specific to the Druze of the area that can\u2019t be obtained at the moment,\u201d Moskovich explained. \u201cAt other times you would have found them at the market. For instance, honey that is made of the ferula plant. Parts of the plant are poisonous but its honey is delicious and it is said to be helpful for men of a certain age. The plant grows on the summit of the Hermon, on the Syrian side, and at the moment the Druze villages on the Israeli side can\u2019t obtain it because of the situation in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>After the market we headed to Majdal Shams\u2014a (more) modern Druze town at the foot of Mount Hermon\u2014which Samara jokingly referred to as the Tel Aviv of the Druze. Majdal Shams is less conservative and religious than the Druze villages located farther down the mountain. In Majdal Shams we visited Said Ibrahim\u2019s mill and learned how he makes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulgur\">bulgur<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freekeh\">freekeh<\/a> (a dish made out of green durum wheat) and also learned about kishk\u2014a fermented milk product, like a powdery cereal, which is easily stored and thus an integral part of the winter diet in the area. The Druze in the Golan make it out of bulgur with yogurt from goat\u2019s milk. After it is dried, villagers bring it to Ibrahim to grind into a powder. \u201cIn the winter it\u2019s very cold in the villages in the Mount Hermon area,\u201d Moskovich explained. \u201cIt snows here and the Druze use the kishk as a base to make soups which they eat for breakfast when it\u2019s cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Out last station, also in Majdal Shams, was Abu Jabel\u2019s knafeh factory, where we participated in a knafeh workshop and made our own delicious Arab pastry, in which two layers of kadaif noodles are filled with soft white cheese, cooked on the stove, drenched in sugar syrup and sprinkled with ground pistachio nuts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>The Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethnic group that splintered from Islam approximately 1,000 years ago. Druze cuisine is basically Arab and Middle Eastern cuisine, with local varieties depending on local produce and customs. The Druze of the Golan, for instance, cook Syrian food with a local twist, by using plants that grow in their area, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gundelia\">Tournefort\u2019s gundelia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"InsetImg InsetImg--right InsetImg--undefined \">\n<div class=\"InsetImg__container relative w100\">\n<div class=\"pointer bg-color-transparent\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<picture><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Img pointer absolute t0 r0 l0 w100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b5670161f3721dee4d61a6a778d57b73555f9a6b-500x652.png?resize=500%2C652&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(maxWidth: 768px) 768px, (maxWidth: 1080px) 1080px, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b5670161f3721dee4d61a6a778d57b73555f9a6b-500x652.png?w=768&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 768w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b5670161f3721dee4d61a6a778d57b73555f9a6b-500x652.png?w=1080&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1080w,https:\/\/tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net\/production\/b5670161f3721dee4d61a6a778d57b73555f9a6b-500x652.png?w=1200&amp;q=70&amp;auto=format&amp;dpr=1 1200w\" alt=\"Said Ibrahim\u2019s mill in Majdal Shams (Photo: Dana Kessler)\" width=\"500\" height=\"652\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"InsetImg__caption-container graebenbach font-300\"><span class=\"InsetImg__caption color-gray-darkest text-article-details-xs font-300\">Said Ibrahim\u2019s mill in Majdal Shams (Photo: Dana Kessler)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Many of the foods we sampled on our tour are familiar to Israelis from Arab restaurants, which are not necessarily Druze. \u201cThe Druze cook with local and seasonal ingredients,\u201d Amir Khalfon, chef of Carmel Forest Spa Resort, told me. \u201cWhen it\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-life-and-religion\/125880\/israeli-chefs-think-green\">khubeza<\/a> season, thy cook with khubeza. When it\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Origanum_syriacum\">za\u2019atar<\/a> season they use za\u2019atar. They cook recipes that run in their families for generations, from the region that they came from. Each region has its own nuances, and the region matters more than the fact that they are Druze. The Druze cuisine does not differ that much from other Arab cooking, what matters is the region they came from and the region they live in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>The Northern and Haifa districts hold many authentic Druze restaurants, like Nora\u2019s Kitchen in Daliyat El Karmel (a Druze town in the Haifa District) or Mitbach HaShvil in Peki\u2019in in the Upper Galilee. By comparison, Druze restaurants catering to outsiders are less prevalent in the Golan Heights. \u201cIn the Golan you have restaurants in which you can eat shish kebab, hummus, and french fries\u2014that sort of thing\u2014but not a lot of real authentic home style Druze cooking,\u201d Moskovich concluded. \u201cDruze culture in the Golan is more closed off. They haven\u2019t opened themselves up to tourism as much and they generally keep their culinary delicacies to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BlockContent col-12 lg:col-10 xl-wide:col-8 mxauto\">\n<p>Always a pioneer, Naseba Samara is all for opening local cuisine up. \u201cOur local food is very special,\u201d she proudly told me, noting that she has hosted groups from as far away as Germany and China. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor for me to share this special food with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first station was Naseba Samara\u2019s place in Buq\u2019ata. 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