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Get email notification for articles from Nehemia Shtrasler Follow Apr. 27, 2021 2:49 AM Once, years ago, I attended a large get-together in a restaurant. The host ordered a bottle of wine and a waiter came to the table with the bottle. He started to open it, when suddenly someone shouted: “Wait, are you an Arab?” The waiter did not reply but his face fell. He withdrew in embarrassment and a hush came over the table. The public humiliation stunned all of us. I was ashamed to belong to the same group of people as the kippah-wearing man who shouted. Two minutes later, a Jewish waiter came o...

Chef Michael Solomonov during a recent visit to Israel. (Courtesy Michael Solomonov) Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov misses his Israel. A lot. Solomonov, a five-time James Beard Foundation award winner and co-owner with longtime partner Steve Cook of Philadelphia’s CookNSolo restaurants, usually visits Israel twice a year. It’s where he was born, and where his brother is buried. With few planes coming in (Israel totally banned all incoming flights this week), and a strict quarantine requirement for all visitors, a trip to Israel is not quite feasible. So Solomonov is doing the next b...

January 12, 2021 Image by Michael Persico Chef Michael Solomonov (left) with the owner of Falafel Kaduri in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Solomonov says the tiny shop makes the best falafel per square foot in Israel. Don’t think for a minute that a global pandemic could deter chef Michael Solomonov from his sworn mission of introducing Israeli food and culture to as wide an audience as possible. With an ever-expanding number of Philadelphia-area eateries that include a hummusiya (Dizengoff), a falafel shop (Goldie), a street-food spot (Merkaz), and a skewer house (Laser Wolf), the multiple-James-Be...

With his fleet of Philadelphia restaurants and three published cookbooks, chef Michael Solomonov has made a strong bid to be the most prominent proponent of Israeli food in America.