Taste This

Taste This – Shakshuka

Jonathan Elkhoury goes to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market to discover the secret of great shakshuka - Love. Transcription: Hi there, I'm Jonathan. I'm here, in the Mahane Yehuda Shuk in Jerusalem to enjoy some shakshuka. Shakshuka is a dish made of tomatoes. When I grew up in Lebanon, people were killed at checkpoints for saying the word "tomato" in the wrong dialect. The Palestinian dialect is "bandora." But the Lebanese Christian dialect is "benadura." But now I'm in Israel and here we say "agvania." Or as the famous line says, "I say tom-ay-to and you say tom-ah-to." So let's go enjoy some shakshuka in the shuk. Wow, you can even buy shakshuka in borekas. We are in the Ma...