Sautéed Spinach with Pine Nuts and Raisins

This gem of a dish is popular across the Sephardi culinary world, from Catalonia in Spain, to Greece, Turkey and, of course, Italy, where both Roman and Venetian Jews claim it as theirs. I grew up thinking it was classic Italian, unaware of its Jewish origin. I still make it regularly in London and it often graces dinner tables for Shabbat and festivals of Italian Jews.

The combination of pine nuts with raisins - in Roman slang passerine (from uva passa, mean