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“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants.- nabokov
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Amba, a pickled mango sauce, is one of my favorite Jewish food stories related to Israel, where it has become a staple served with falafel, shawarma and sabich sandwiches all over. The sauce’s origin actually begins in India, and was brought to Iraq by Jewish traders. It is believed that amba was developed sometime during the 19th century. Iraqi Jews started arriving in Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, and quickly started producing their own amba there to serve with sabich, the traditional Iraqi breakfast of potatoes, fried eggplant and hard boiled eggs. Israelis fell in love with the sweet, spicy, pickled sauce and started using it on other stuffed sandwiches. Today, amba has become so popular you can even find it at Trader Joe's, but if you are up for it, make your own with Sonya Sanford’s recipe. |
👼These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
Why is truth not allowed to exist anymore? Why is basic reality banned from our lives? Nobody believes in basic logic anymore! Truth judges...