Day 01
Mahane Yehuda Market Culinary Discovery
- We will reach Mahane Yehuda Market through Jaffa Street, the main street of Jerusalem.
- Hear about the history of the market's development.
- We will get to know three types of markets within Mahane Yehuda Market: the covered market, the central market, and the Iraqi market.
- We will visit an authentic bakery that bakes a traditional pita called "Ashtanur"; the secrets of its preparation were brought to Israel by new immigrants from Arab countries.
- We will observe how the bread is prepared using a traditional method in a special oven, taste it, and enjoy its excellent flavour.
- We will taste tahini prepared on the spot by grinding sesame seeds with a millstone.
- We will visit a spice shop passed down from father to son.
- A celebration of smells, tastes, and colours awaits us in this shop; we will taste the abundance it offers.
- We will visit "the kingdom of halva," where we will taste halva in various flavours prepared using sawdust methods from natural ingredients.
