Carefully and cautiously, people are fumbling their way back into routine, which will hopefully be the post CoViD 19 routine. This is a different, hesitant, somewhat pessimistic routine - given the many warnings regarding a second wave that might be, in addition to the economy that was significantly disturbed. 

But for now, people are coming out of the houses, going to shops, buying delicious foods to take home and other things that make them happy.

Are you hot? I'm hot too. Just this week I remembered that last year May was declared the hottest month... for a long time. 

May this year broke the record of May 2019, and most of us probably feel it ourselves. Although we are hot (and it is most certainly hot… our customers who live near the Dead Sea –we sympathize with you), we can find a spot with some shade and maybe even air conditioning.

Wow, what an outstanding heat wave hit us this weekend. It started out rather gently, you could say that it tricked us so we were not prepared for such hot weather: If we get rain in early May, we don't expect 38 degrees in the middle of May!

So we had rain, then a few days of quite pleasant weather, such that the Europeans get every summer for a few months (although in recent years they too have experienced unpleasant heat waves), and then Bang!mid-August heat.

Last week we had rain - rain in early May! I can't remember the last time it showered during May in our country. Just before the warm sun becomes too hot, the raindrops brought a pleasant feeling.

I heard them during the night, telling me that it is now time to stow away the heavy duvet and take out the summer clothes.

The khursháfis definitely a very weird vegetable. I'm talking about the artichoke, even though it sounds like a psychometric puzzle. 

Both names, the artichoke and the khursháf actually originate from the same Arabic source khurshūfa, and was a known food around here as early as the Mishnah days.