I fought someone for a catering order. We fought one on one with briefcases as melee weapons. Fortunately, I had played Hitman so it was an easy win.
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Iraqi Jewish confectionery are a window into a bygone era
Five days a week, 78-year-old Tzvi (Sabah) David rises at 4:35 a.m. and dons an all-white baker’s outfit before heading out to open up Konditorei David, the last-of-its-kind Iraqi pastry shop in Petah Tikva that was opened by his father David Tsalah.
Three days before the Purim holiday, David is getting ready for one of the busiest times of the year as multiple generations of Iraqi customers will soon stop by to purchase sweets that have been synonymous with Purim for Iraqi Jews for centuries, if not millennia.
“I love the work. It is a very tiring and difficult job and I am not 18 anymore, but I feel young in the morning when I get up,” David tells Eliyahu Freedman of The Times of Israel on a recent visit to the small shop, which doubles as a window into the pre-modern world of Middle-Eastern pastries.
His first item of business today is making a fresh batch of baba qadrasi, also known in Arabic as “mann el-sama” or “manna from heaven,” named after the legendary food that God miraculously delivered from the sky to feed the Israelites in the Exodus story.
If not truly the biblical food itself, an early recipe for baba qadrasi was found in a 10th-century Abbasid cookbook.
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Catering industry apprentices, Gundel Restaurant, Budapest, 1985. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Magpie my beloved. :3
magpie is this adorable cat that lives by my house with his friend, a grey tabby called Ranger. And he is such an adorable boo. Leave comments of cute niknames I could call him.
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THIS WAS KINDA STRANGE. CARMY, I LOVE YOU AND CICERO
Cicero had Carmy caterhis son's birthday party.
They talked for a while when Carmy was cleaning up.
Hen it was time to say goodbye he shook Richie's hand but he hugged Carmy.
He told Carmy 'I love you' and Carmy said it back with no hesitation and no goading.
That was so strange to me
Because first of all Carmy said I love you and it sounded like he meant it
But sometimes he's scared that Cicero will break his legs over money.
Make it make sense, please.
Meanwhile why does Cicero love these Berzatto kids so much???
He just seems like he cares like a real dad
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