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Listen: Food is a love language - especially during tough pandemic times FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Susanna Zaraysky s father, Isaac Zaraysky, 86, lives in a nursing home. Preparing meal kits for him been has been critical to feeling connected to him during the pandemic.Courtesy Susanna ZarayskyShow MoreShow Less 2of4 It takes around two hours for Susanna Zaraysky and her family to prepare weekly mealkits for Isaac Zaraysky who lives in a nursing home.Courtesy Susanna ZarayskyShow MoreShow Less 3of4 Susanna Zaraysky s parents, who are both Jewish, met in the 1970’s and experienced a lot of antisemitism in the former Soviet Union. Together, they escaped to the United States in 1980, where they eventually ended up in San Jose, California.Courtesy Susanna ZarayskyShow MoreShow Less ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading Few in the food world want to touch the Palestine issue. Here s why one S.F. bar is speaking up FacebookTwitterEmail Mohamed Dahleh waves the flag of Palestine while on the shoulders of Munir Abughannam in solidarity with hundreds of protesters outside the Israeli Consulate, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle Two weeks ago, when the current Israel-Palestine crisis began unfolding in the Gaza Strip, I noticed that a lot more people especially non-activists were talking about it in public. But in my part of the woods, the food world, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories hasn’t really been a topic of conversation, though diners have long-embraced the region’s cuisines at Israeli restaurants like Philadelphia’s Zahav and Oren’s Hummus in San Francisco. If there was any conversation about Palestine, it was largely driven by Arab American women like chef-activists Ama ....