Pinina

Appears in
The Galilean Kitchen

By Ruth Nieman

Published 2017

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“all cooking starts with an onion”

Pinina’s speciality is katai’f, sweet, stuffed pancakes which she serves after a meal or with a welcome cup of coffee.

Pinina is a religious Druze widow from the village of Marah. She has followed in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother, women who have remained in the village and married at a young age. With two young children and pregnant with her third child, Pinina came home from picking fresh mushrooms one day to be told the devastating news that her thirty-seven-year-old husband had suddenly died of a heart attack.