Food in Israel

And, by the way, the hamburger doesn't smell very beefy while it's cooking. Instead, it slightly resembles chicken. But I'm going to smother it with tomato sauce and add spices, so it doesn't really matter.

Cashews -- $12 a pound. But that's at an average corner store. At a good market you could probably get them for much less. I don't know because I don't get out much.

Lima beans -- I haven't seen any here. They have broad beans and some others, but not limas. And when the menu in a restaurant says green beans, you get red beans. I don't know if they even know what green beans are. But I have tasted some really, really good green (red) bean soup.

Blackened olives -- that's what they're called. So are they black olives? Yes, but no. They look black, but taste green. And not a very good green.

Pickles -- you can get them in salt or in vinegar. Only the vinegar kind tastes right to me.

A quick way to figure prices is to divide by eight. So if it says 20 shekels per kilo, that's $2.50 per pound. I have no clue about pounds or euros.

Tortillas and taco shells. I keep forgetting to look for them. I have never noticed any, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. Maybe they're hiding behind the pita bread.

But you know what the main problem is with food in Israel? There aren't any of my family here to eat it with.