מולדת זה סקס

Nouveaute

Cette semaine est paru a Tel Aviv le nouveau livre de

Gabriel Bensimhon:“Le Jardin des delices marocains”-

recettes, nouvelles et reves

“The garden of Moroccan Delights”

and the Author

“A Moroccan feast is sex. It is no coincidence that the most

popular Moroccan dish is the Couscous, or in its Moroccan

name - Sexo. Looking at the Couscous dish wide on the

bottom becoming thinner as you go upwards surrounded by

zucchini, carrots and meats and topped by Houmus peas,

almonds and resins is watching a Berber woman in the

nude covered only by beads of copper and amber”

In these words Gabriel Bensimhon describes the experience of

Moroccan food in his book “The garden of Moroccan Delights”

and continues:“The Moroccan feast is a mixture of a religious and an

erotic ritual, The Moroccan woman, weather Jewish or

Muslim, lives under a siege of religious rules and laws of

her veil and house, her only way to express herself, seduce

and expose is through her cocking. As she adds color, spices

and perfumes to her food she is doing it actually to herself,

as she uncovers her “Tagein” on the table she is actually

performing a striptease and when you eat her food you are

actually eating her.” Gabriel Bensimhon is a writer, playwright, poet and a film maker. He serves as a Professor in The Department of

Theatre and Cinema in Tel Aviv University. He has published more than ten books of poetry, plays, screenplays and short stories and produced several films and plays. His book “The garden of Moroccan Delights” is a different book, a first of its kind binding together food and literature, presenting some

forty of the author most preferred dishes, escorted by a feast of love

stories, travel stories, poems, confessions, delusions and dreams.

My dreams resemble very much to my stories and vice versa.

It begins always with a real situation and develops into a

fantastic one which is possible only in a dream realm. The

same happens with my dishes. I begin with very simple and

regular ingredients, but the result is always a dream.

“The garden of Moroccan Delights” is greatly a book of

passion, an erotic voyage of an Israeli – Moroccan writer into

Morocco through its landscapes, history, culture and spirit, dishes and women.