Simcha shakshuka (Adam DeTour)
This story originally appeared on The Nosher. For nearly a decade, chef Avi Shemtov has been a pioneer on Boston’s food scene. In 2010, he rolled out The Chubby Chickpea, one of the first food trucks in the city, serving up Israeli-style street food from falafel and chicken shwarma… Read more »
Falafel wars in Paris: Who's got the better balls?
Yomi Peretz, right, approaching a line of tourists waiting to place their orders at L'As Du Fallafel in the historic Jewish quarter of Paris, April 2012. (WikiMedia Commons)
PARIS (JTA) — On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers who are waiting in a 20-yard queue in the rain to enter his falafel shop. This chummy interaction comes naturally to Peretz, a tall enthusiast of boxing and poker who… Read more »
