michal: yes. anthony: oh man, that s good. i just had this incredibly delicious meal, completely oblivious to the fact that it s entirely vegetarian. if any of the vegetarian restaurants in new york served food that tasted anywhere near this i would be, i would actually yotam: go there. anthony: well, i mean i m i d consider it. and this? michal: fresh zucchini with mint. yotam: and apricots. the little sweet apricots we have. anthony: now, all of this food is really intensely delicious. are you hopeful? michal: of course, i have my children. you need to see them. jakob: i respect her religion. she respect my religion and my family. and together we can build something. for our kids, our future country. that s what we think and that s what we give the message for our customers. yotam: part of the attraction of this restaurant, the fact that it actually manages to do what not so many chefs try to do
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yotam: we have to go through a typical falafel place because it s so much part of the culture here and again contentious because you know jews or israelis made falafel their own and everybody in the world thinks falafel is you know israeli food, but in actual fact it s as much a palestinian food. even more so because you know they ve it s been done for generations here. and here you get falafel that s just been fried. you don t get it any other way. and when i go to a place like that and i see he s got a few bowls left in the bowl from the previous customer, i don t take that. i want him to fry them especially for me and that makes all the difference in the world. anthony: it s a whole different animal, isn t it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it. yotam: who made it first? the one thing that is very clear is that is in this part of the world palestine, lebanon, syria it s been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other hand, you get
answer to it but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food is massive here. they can go on arguing about it forever. the old city s divided into four quarters. there is a- muslim quarter. there s a jewish quarter. there s a christian quarter and there s an armenian quarter. each one functions independently, but people that live in the certain area are all from that religion. so here you see these israeli flags over this house, so basically jews have bought this house although it s in the muslim quarter. that s very controversial because it breaks the separation that people would normally expect in the city. now we re walking in the steps of jesus christ right? anthony: as i so often do. yotam: so this is via dolorosa which is the last trip jesus did before he was crucified. so, people feel very emotional.
[ speaks arabic ] they re very concerned that we re being very rude and we re not. anthony: yeah eat. laila: we re not allowing, no the others to eat. no, he s saying how can you be eating and you re letting everyone stand. anthony: wow. laila: for me, being from gaza, being a child of diaspora, i always thought food was a really interesting way to be able to tell the palestinian story. being able to discover this lost history, this palestinian past. plus, the food is really damn good. anthony: right that it is. laila: and it was i think also important to be able to provide palestinians an image of themselves that they recognize, a very humane image. because all they re seeing in the media, whether here or there, whether i m on arabic channels or abroad, you know, is this kind of very caricatured images of, you know, gunmen and you know, wailing women, and