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Podcast: Taste Buds With Deb
Episode: Cooking with Chutzpah & The Open Kitchen Project with Asif's Chico Menashe
Description: On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Chico Menashe, the CEO of Asif: Culinary Institute of Israel in Tel Aviv. Founded in 2021, Asif is a non-profit organization, dedicated to cultivating and nurturing Israel's diverse and creative food culture.  "It's an Israeli food culture, not specifically Jewish culture," Menashe says. "We have influences from all over the world."  Menashe talks about Israeli food and cooking with chutzpah. He also shares stories from Asif's Open Kitchen Project, where Israeli locals open their homes to people who have bee...