When: November 6th, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Tickets: $10 admission to the event | $45 for admission to the event and a copy of the book
Moderated by: Cantor Leslie Niren

The Eucalyptus restaurant is a Jerusalem landmark. In its first cookbook, The Eucalyptus Cookbook, Chef Moshe Basson reveals his Levant cultivated culinary innovations. The magnificent photographs and exotic stories that accompany the recipes take you into forest forages for wild greens and mallows and to the days of the Bible where birthrights were traded for sustenance. The book also tells the universal story of migration and how a business can support and be supported by its workers. Here, family members work alongside the long-tenured staff and add dishes from their own homes, from their travels. Mainly, it brings you into the kitchen of Chef Moshe’s mother. where Iraqi scents and sense, old world wisdom, and the trials and struggles of building a home in a new land are palpable to the touch and to the taste.

About the Author: 

Moshe Basson is an internationally renowned master chef specializing Israeli-Biblical cuisine. He has received accolades as an ethno botanist, expert in the Mediterranean diet including specialty diets such as Veganism and Jainism, heritage and wild foods activist, storyteller, food historian, folklorist and restaurateur.