Last winter on a dreary February New York evening I stopped into this tiny little restaurant and met Chef Gazala Halabi. Over freshly made bourekas, labanie and more she shared her food and some of her story with me. (She owns two of what may be the only restaurants in the U.S. serving Israeli Druze cuisine). It was her Osh Al-Saria dish that really stood out to me. It doesn’t look like much although Photographer Liz Clayman did an amazing job photographing it, but this dessert made of a very light dough topped and with yogurt pudding and pistachios is creamy and lively with hints of citrus and rosewater. Gazala created the recipe from the recollection of a similar dish her grandmother made when she was a child. I was so happy to find a place to share Gazala’s story and her food at Good Food Jobs. Read it here.
