Chicken and salad

The chicken is usually grilled. The salads are enormous. Together they constitute what seems to be the national dish of Israel. You can get steak, of course, from Golan Heights herds, and fish from the Red Sea. But chicken and salad are more common.

And when I say salad, I don’t mean lettuce. It’s available, sure, but more common is a mound of diced cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and parsley. A heaping mound. Pita bread and humus. A scoop of tahini in the middle of the humus ring. Mineral water. Diet coke. Cafe botz, or espresso. Yummy stuff, I tell you.