Carpark North

The Danish band Carpark North just blew my mind out with their new video to the re-recorded track Just Human

Israeli Cuisine at Yonatan and Chen

I know that Italian families are well known for their cuisine and traditional family dinner, not from my own experience, but you know from all those TV shows and cooking documentaries they show on world travelling TV-channels - visualize it for a couple of seconds, 1, 2, 3 and you're done. Now remove the milky sauces, the lasagna and add some spice, Hebrew and joy.
Israel is the new Italy - at least as far as I'm concerned.

Tonight's get-together and 'cook-n-share' dinner party hosted by my friends and colleagues from Israel infused me with happiness and joy I thought I'd left behind in a big box tightly sealed and placed in the attic back home in Sweden.
The smell of plates with well crisped chicken and potatoes, red bubbly wine á la Gal and to me exotic mixes of spices all together wrapped up and enhanced in a clutter of cheering voices and the jangle from plates and glasses being set on the table.
I'm not used to these kinds of events especially not where many different cultures and traditions are meeting in such a good way.
Such hospitality and joyfulness is rare here and I welcomed it as the pleasant break in a hectic schedule that I hoped it would be. I can honestly say that this was the first night ever since I got here when I could truly let my head relax just enjoying the meal, the conversations, the laughter and the smiles.

The dinner was as fetched from a another world, a taste experience richer than anything I've experienced since I got here - not even the Czech specialties at Pivovarsky Dum across the street would even be fair contestant in a comparison contest.
After a loud and jolly prayer the feast was on and spoons, forks and knives were tearing the dishes apart and in less than an hour, or should I rather say 300 taste experiences later, the plates were almost clean and the promised food coma started to kick in.
Although the dessert were still to come and what a dessert indeed. I'll let the photos speak for themselves from here on.

Thank you all for a fantastic evening,
I already long for next Friday and then I'll for sure bring some more wine and something tasteful to the table.