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Chocolate eclairs. (iStock)
She studied the culinary arts at Paris’s renowned Le Cordon Bleu, and the chic pâtisserie that Amit Barkat recently opened in Jerusalem’s industrial Talpiot neighborhood seems like a transplant from Montmartre or the Marais. This past Friday (Purim), my IDF soldier son, Binyamin, who has adopted a gluten-free diet, and I went hunting for some holiday sweets that he could eat. We found them at Amit’s place, where all of the handcrafted desserts are sans gluten. While there, we also partook of a treat even more satisfying than the alluring pastries; we experienced one of those unforgettable “only in Israel” moments.