Occupied cherries

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After a late lunch of salad and pasta at one of my favourite neighbourhood restaurants, the shift manager stopped by to chat. At one point we both joked that we were totally sick of watching the news, that politics in this country is like a soap opera script that repeats itself all the time and we just wanted to stick our heads in the sand again. Then I asked him if there were any light desserts.
Creme brulee? Tiramisu? he suggested. I wrinkled my nose and said, “Nah, too heavy. I'll just have coffee – make it iced, please.”

So he brought me the iced coffee – and with it a bowl of cherries on a bed of ice cubes and a cup of thick sour cream for dipping.

“I think you'll like these,” he smiled.

“Wow,” I said. “They're absolutely delicious! Where are they from?”

“From the Golan!” he laughed. “You see, even cherries are political around here.”

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I've never had Golan cherries. Just Golan wine. And the wine was good. On most occassions anyways.

1. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Gamla is the best.

2. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Tel Aviv (or more accurately, certain neighbourhoods of Tel Aviv) is most probably the only place in Israel where the Golan is still referred to as “occupied”, almost 25 years after its de-facto annexation.

3. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Besides visiting about 5 different wineries in 1.5 days, we just polished off the last of 2 kilos of both red and “white” (ie Rainier) cherries we picked last weekend. They were sinful. (And the baklava at Maasade was too!)

4. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
And I just finished making sour cherry soup (Transylvanian/Hungarian-style, with sour cream and toasted hazelnuts on top) out of the Montmorency cherries that are only available in Northern California for about two weeks each year. Most of the sour cherries in the US (from Washington State and from Michigan, mostly of the Montmorency and Morello varieties) get canned for pies and jam.
Mmmmm; cold sour cherry soooooupppp….

5. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Okay, so if we have a group of Conservative British parliamentarians who are keeping busy by eating cherries, may we call them Occupied Cherry Tories?

6. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm
I remeber the cherries that came back with soldiers from Lebabnon in 1982. about the same season, I guess.

7. Anonymous
on December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm