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existence is threatened. Again.
Israelis rushed, jostled and elbowed their way as if their very survival
depended upon it.
All for donuts.
Headlines may scream out, attack, threaten, but Israelis
shrug their shoulders and deal with priorities. Like getting the tastiest,
freshest batch of sufganiyot (donuts) for Chanukah.
real spirit of this holiday, you have to head to the bakery.
did.
tables filled with a variety of donuts. As soon as a tray was put down, people
grabbed empty cartons, a pair of pincers and set to work filling their boxes.
And when the tray sadly sat empty, a smiling baker came out with a fresh tray and the exercise
continued again.
if we were in a shuk. The pulse quickened and the pincers clicked. I looked
down at the popular tray and saw donuts that defied the definition of donut: cream-filled,
cherry bedecked and chocolate streaked.
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| Sabrinot, Sabrinot! |
like never before. We ran back inside and were soon in sufganiya Sabrina
heaven.
bakeries in the country featuring a nadir of gourmet flavors. This year’s
flavors include the Rosha Ferulina with crème anglaise, walnut chunks, chocolate coating bedecked with bitter chocolate shavings. The Malabi is chocolate filled
and topped with white chocolate coating and coconut shavings, while the Biscotella
is cream filled with chunks of Oreo cookies topped with Oreo cookies chunks and finished with a generous helping of whipping cream.
wearing festive shirts with the words “I love Chanukah. ” Even the donut boxes
were dressed up. Across the box were the words “Life Tastes Better With
Roladin.” We are in Hebrew-speaking Israel, but according to Roladin’s take on
delicious, life tastes better in English.
Whatever the language or flavor, the focus here is on good times.
Here in tenuous, tiny Israel, we take
life one delicious bite at a time.
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