Over the span of nearly 15 years,
The Los Angeles Times corrected erroneous usages of the term “Palestine” more than half a dozen times. But it seems that the paper’s food department of all places has now set a new policy for itself, designating the West Bank as “Palestine.” Thus, in his Feb. 27 food column, “The secret ingredient to a lavish Bedouin dish,” Bill Addison repeatedly referred to the West Bank, which is partly controlled by the Palestinian Authority, as “Palestine.”
A James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic at
The Los Angeles Times, Addison wrote:
Za’atar is the Arabic name for origanum syriacum, an herb native to the Levantine swath of the Middle East that includes Lebanon,