Lapid Volume #111, May 2014 | Page 9

RECIPES REMEMBERED By Matty Lupu - World WIZO Chairperson's Office I would like to share with you a personal anecdote about a little gem of a cookbook "A Russian Jew Cooks in Peru" which conjures up memories of my childhood in Lima. At the age of 19 I made aliyah leaving my family behind. This was a different era, before the advent of the Internet and mobile phones. There was no telephone in my dormitory room at the Hebrew University Mt Scopus campus. Whenever I wanted to speak to my family I had to make a special trip to the central post office in Jerusalem and for the hefty sum of NIS7 a minute it v2