A SAVOURY DELIGHT FOR SHAVUOT

Shavuot. Maybe our favourite festival of all from a food perspective, although — sadly — it only lasts two days! Shavuot was biblically a festival of gratitude held at the end of the seven weeks of the omer, dedicated to the wheat harvest in ancient Israel, which was marked by bringing the first loaves of bread to the Temple in Jerusalem. Once the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, such offerings were not possible. Over the next few centuries, as the Jewish people dispersed across