A midweek walk on an empty beach, the same one which will become a festival of candy colored umbrellas during the stifling summer months. Time is measured by the rhythmical cycle of the sea and nothing seems too pressing or important.
Sadly, Palmach beach will probably soon change because a new sport complex will be built nearby to develop an area which should be left alone. But for now only the waves resonant through the air, bringing with them dreams of faraway places.
Later on we stopped at Ramle shuk to eat breakfast- cheese burek with a hardboiled egg and plenty of black pepper washed down with ice cold sugarcane juice.
The juice was eyeball rolling sweet and next time I will mix it with ginger, lemon or calamansi juice as Harry and Robyn recommended. The last time I tasted fresh sugarcane was when I was seven on a family visit to Key West about a million years ago.
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So unfair that the Palmachim will be destroyed like that,argh!!!
Last week with Mimi on the new HaTachana in Tel Aviv, we also saw sugarcane and that machine that presses the juice out of them. I don’t like it:when I lived in Venezuela there were lots of those everywhere and after the first sip I knew it was also the last sip;much too sweet for me…..
Haha… I like the way you describe the sweetness of the sugarcane. Here in Taiwan, we add lemon juice with cold/iced sugarcane juice and ginger in the warm ones. I don’t like it either, too sweet for me as well. Though it was said to have some curing ability and my mom in law always recommended me to drink when I was pregnant. Shouldn’t pregnant women avoid foods with excess sugar?
thanks Jen, interesting information, I must try it with lemon juice (and diluted). It reminded me a bit like
prickly pear concentrate, sweetness without anything sour to balance it out.
One of my friends from Egypt is always raving about sugarcane juice but I’ve never tried it but if its as sweet as you and everyone says,I’ll try Harry & Robyn’s recommendation and add calamansi.
What a beautiful beach! Too bad about the development to come. I’ve never tried sugar cane juice. If I ever do, I’ll remember to add lemon!
Yes, Yael and I reminisced a little when we saw that sugarcane at the Tel Aviv organic market. Folks in Latin America are used to very sweet sweets, I think. As a kid in Brazil, I used to relish a small cup of sugar cane juice. Yikes!
Your beach photos made me long to take a long walk along some deserted shore….
Sugarcane juice takes me back to the streets of Mumbai like nothing else does. The ‘juice-wallah’s’ or juice vendors, have a little bell attached to the manual machine that extracts the juice from fresh sugarcane. When the wheels of the machine trun, the bells make a gentle, tinkling sound. On request, they also put in a piece of ginger root and a lemon between the powerful wheels, so your juice is nicely blended with their flavors. I must take several pics on my trip to India next so you know exactly what I mean.
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