The roses are in bloom--they have returned to Jerusalem and so have we.
The fridge and cupboards have food we bought at a local market. There are many brands and types of yoghurt, milk, wine, Israeli salads--difficult to make choices. Often prices aren't posted. Yoghurt is only in 6 oz containers wh/ are labelled in grams not oz. everything is sold in metric system which takes getting used to.
The cuts of meat are different. fish is sold whole and the fishmonger will fiilet or otherwise cut it up--however filet is the only word we know in Hebrew related to this process, so that's what we've done. 1 lb is roughly 500 grams.
Prices are better at the Mahana Yehuda (tHE Shuk)' It's really lively--the
men who operate the stalls call to each other and to the customers. Each stall sells a particular thing: fruits and vegetables, cheeses, olives, chicken and beef, fish, halvah, bread and cakes and cookies. Spices are piled on counters or in gunny sacks--piles of red, green, orange, brown, and yellow. Fruits and vegetables are displayed in colorful mounds. Prepared food is also sold--bereckas, falafel, vegetarian soups and salads, Italian fare, freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices. The fragrant odors change with the booth as you walk past. Four young men improvised on American tunes popular in the 1930s to 1950s near the falafel stand.
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