Zada & Ziad

Appears in
The Galilean Kitchen

By Ruth Nieman

Published 2017

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“all our ingredients are just there”

Zada picks wild hubeza, common mallow leaves, which she cooks straight from picking and serves immediately.

Zada and her husband Ziad are Muslim Bedouins from the village of Sallama. They are pastoralists and foragers of their natural habitat with a vast knowledge of the many plants growing wild in the lush green Sakhnin valley. Ziad works in partnership with Zada as a tour guide, taking groups of tourists out into the Galilean hills to forage for wild edibles to take back to the kitchen, where together they cook typical Galilean delights and eat with their guests.