Smoked Egg Pâté

Eggs loom large in the landscape of Jewish religious symbolism. Eggs are eaten for the break fast, for example, at the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. And a roasted egg—symbol of spring and new beginnings—appears on the Sedar plate (the platter of ritual foods) at the Jewish feast of Passover. So it seemed appropriate that our dinner at the Auberge Shulamit began with a smoked egg pâté. This historic inn, built in the 1930s and used as a lodging house for British officers du