Rachela Shrefler, now in her seventies, came to Jerusalem from Iran as a child and later met her husband, Ezra Shrefler, a Turkish–Kurdish Jew. They are both cooks and own Azura (see more Stuffed aubergine with lamb & pine nuts), a restaurant in Machne Yehuda market. Rachela, though, is the one cooking at home. Among the many pots she has on the stove on a Friday for the Saturday ‘raid’ — when dozens of hungry family m
