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Website apologises for "unfortunate oversight", as it emerges the original writer described Israeli food as "culinary theft"

by Louisa Walters

Time Out magazine has apologised for the exclusion of Israeli restaurants from its compilation of London’s 20 Best Middle Eastern restaurants and added some to its list, after Jewish News reported that the contributor of the piece appeared to deliberately omit them.

As noted by Jewish News yesterday, the original list, which was compiled by Suzie Bakos, a supper-club influencer, began by describing “Syrian breakfasts, Kurdish brunches, Palestinian dinner parties and late-night Lebanese bites” – with not a single Israeli restaurant making the cut, despite a plethora of high quality Israeli culinary offerings in the capital.

The piece has now been changed, to include “Israeli feasts” in the introduction and includes three Israeli restaurants – Bubala in Spitalfields, The Palomar in Soho and Ottolenghi’s Rovi in Fitzrovia – among the twenty.

Time Out magazine has apologised for the exclusion of Israeli restaurants from its compilation of London’s 20 Best Middle Eastern restaurants and added some to its list, after Jewish News reported that the contributor of the piece appeared to deliberately omit them.

As noted by Jewish News yesterday, the original list, which was compiled by Suzie Bakos, a supper-club influencer, began by describing “Syrian breakfasts, Kurdish brunches, Palestinian dinner parties and late-night Lebanese bites” – with not a single Israeli restaurant making the cut, despite a plethora of high quality Israeli culinary offerings in the capital.

The piece has now been changed, to include “Israeli feasts” in the introduction and includes three Israeli restaurants – Bubala in Spitalfields, The Palomar in Soho and Ottolenghi’s Rovi in Fitzrovia – among the twenty.

The magazine told Jewish News it had “updated our list of the Best Middle Eastern Restaurants in London to include Israeli restaurants. The initial omission was a very unfortunate oversight and the result of a human error; for this we do apologise. Our website contains recommendations and reviews of many of the outstanding Israeli and Jewish-owned restaurants across London, and we are looking forward to continuing to represent the breadth of Middle Eastern cuisine as we always have.

“We will always champion the many communities that make up our wonderfully diverse city. As a result of the oversight, we are undertaking a review of our commissioning and editing process.”

It transpired that in July, Bakos had written a piece for The New Arab in which she said Palestinian food was “a symbol of resistance in the face of erasure” and described Israeli food as “culinary theft… when its people are oppressed and their oppressors profit both financially and culturally from this appropriation.”

Bakos went on to say: “Traditional dishes that have a historical connection to Palestinians, Levantine Arabs and North Africans, such as hummus and falafel, have been subject to Israeli appropriation…Colonial powers have long taken indigenous dishes, food and ingredients, and renamed them to suit European languages and palates. Where Israel differs is its desire to present as indigenous.”

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