Chicken sofrito

Many of Jerusalem’s most iconic dishes — and the most interesting, we dare say — are the result of necessity and straitened circumstances. The Palestinian population of the city and surrounding areas includes many comfortable city folk, but is mostly comprised of village people with very limited means. Of the Jews, the majority of 20th-century newcomers were poor in their countries of origin or, if not, became relatively poor in the first years after settling in the city. What all these peo