Raw artichoke & herb salad

Artichokes are the most extraordinary vegetable; nothing tastes quite as magical. Many cooks tend to be finicky when it comes to artichokes, easily shunning the effort involved in preparing them. In Jerusalem, some housewives buy many kilograms of artichokes when they are in season, in early summer, and allocate a couple of hours to trimming and cleaning them, before storing them in the freezer for a rainy day. If you can spare the time, we’d encourage you to adopt the habit. If you can’t,