{"product_id":"supper-club-tel-aviv-y-shabbat-with-alissa-kondogiannis","title":"SUPPER CLUB: Tel Aviv-y Shabbat by Alissa Kondogiannis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years Jewish people have been gathering around the table on Friday nights to celebrate a humble but ancient ritual, the sabbath meal. The lighting of candles, the singing of simple blessings and the breaking of bread have been the unifying thread that has connected Jewish life across centuries and continents. In this multi-dinner series, \u003cstrong\u003eAlissa Kondogiannis\u003c\/strong\u003e explores Shabbat dinners as they have evolved in Jewish communities around the world. Tonight Alissa turns her attention to Tel Aviv, and the fresh, market-driven style of home cooking that defines that city's tables. Where her past Dep dinners have leaned into Ashkenazi-Sephardic mashups and her own South African-Jewish upbringing, this menu draws on the North African and Middle Eastern threads — Moroccan, Arabic, Libyan, Yemeni — that have folded into modern Israeli cooking over the past seventy-odd years.\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChallah\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlissa is well known at The Dep for her challah — she teaches the venue's popular challah and babka classes — and this dinner starts, as her Shabbat tables always do, with a fresh, homemade loaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSalatim\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThis spread of small salads and dips that opens an Israeli meal is sometimes described as a \u003cem\u003e\"United Nations of the table\".\u003c\/em\u003e The wave of nearly 700,000 Jewish immigrants who arrived from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in Israel's earliest years is what gave the spread its enormous variety; every community added its own dish to the table. This includes pumpkin \u003cem\u003echershi — a \u003c\/em\u003eLibyan Jewish squash dip that's spicy, tangy, garlicky and a little sweet, charred eggplant salad, olives, and \u003cem\u003etorshi — \u003c\/em\u003ePersian-style pickled vegetables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoroccan Spiced Salmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eNorth African flavours woven into the Israeli table — salmon crusted in dates, almonds and fresh mint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZaatar Roasted Potatoes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFinished with zaatar, creamy labneh and a touch of chili crisp — think British-style crispy roast potatoes, with a Middle-Eastern twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTomato \u0026amp; Cilantro Salad\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fresh Israeli table classic of ripe tomatoes, cilantro, sumac, preserved lemon and pomegranate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCardamom Malabi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA beloved Middle Eastern dessert: a silky cardamom milk pudding, finished with rosewater syrup, toasted coconut and pistachios.\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content entry-content description\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlissa Kondogiannis\u003c\/strong\u003e runs a small catering company North of the Toronto, focusing on Shabbat dinners and Jewish comfort food. She has taught \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thedepanneur.ca\/event\/mothers-day-cooking-class-chocolate-raspberry-rose-babka-with-alissa-kondogiannis\/\"\u003ebabka\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thedepanneur.ca\/event\/cooking-class-the-art-of-challah-by-alissa-kondogiannis-3\/\"\u003echallah\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e classes for years, here at The Depanneur as well as in her Thornhill Community. You can find her online at Barnstar Kitchen. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/barnstarkitchen\/\"\u003e@barnstarkitchen\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #800000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCheck out Alissa's amazing \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thedepanneur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Alissa-Kondogiannis_Latkes_p64.pdf\"\u003eLatkes recipe\u003c\/a\u003e as featured in the award-winning \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thedepanneur.ca\/home\/the-depanneur-cookbook\/\"\u003eThe Depanneur Cookbook\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----- \u003cbr\u003eEvery weekend \u003cstrong\u003eThe Depanneur\u003c\/strong\u003e invites an amateur or professional guest chef to host a fun, informal dinner party. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thedepanneur\/\"\u003e@thedepanneur\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Depanneur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457888424184,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8101\/1960\/files\/salmon_2.jpg?v=1788788762","url":"https:\/\/thedepanneur.ca\/products\/supper-club-tel-aviv-y-shabbat-with-alissa-kondogiannis","provider":"The Depanneur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}