Grilled Israeli Spiced Foie Gras

Cross New York’s Lower East Side with Belleville in Paris and you get the colorful populist Hatikva neighborhood in Tel Aviv. It was here that an Azeri immigrant named Avazi set up a pushcart with a grill that was destined to become a landmark restaurant. An unexpected place to find one of the world’s most luxurious grilled foods, to be sure, but foie gras has been an Avazi specialty since the beginning. And so it remains, even though Israel outlawed foie gras production a few years ago (to