{"id":5424,"date":"2014-07-11T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2014-07-09T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:06:24","slug":"israel-master-chef-hopes-to-foster-peace-through-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/07\/11\/israel-master-chef-hopes-to-foster-peace-through-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel master chef hopes to foster peace through cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nof Atamna-Ismaeel reacts to her win. <em>(photo by Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90 from israel21c.org)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most exciting night of my life,\u201d said a grinning, teary-eyed Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, upon her selection as winner of the fourth season of <em>Master Chef Israel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The April 5 broadcast had more than a third of Israel staying at home on a Saturday night to see who among the remaining three finalists would be crowned this year\u2019s culinary champion of the most popular show on local television, even beating its close competition, <em>Chef Games<\/em>, which debuted this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli-Arab Atamna-Ismaeel ended up besting competitors Ido Kronenberg, a businessman from Savyon, and Meseret Woldimikhal, an Ethiopian-born immigrant in the process of converting from Catholicism to Judaism, who lives in Rishpon.<\/p>\n<p>Atamna-Ismaeel was a judges\u2019 favorite from the get-go. This year\u2019s auditions for the show, based on the British reality program of the same name, involved two steps: a blind tasting of a sandwich prepared behind the scenes by a wannabe contestant, and a second dish cooked on screen by those whose sandwiches met with the judges\u2019 approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/people\/israeli-arab-microbiologist-is-israels-newest-master-chef\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at israel21c.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nof Atamna-Ismaeel reacts to her win. (photo by Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90 from israel21c.org) \u201cThis is the most exciting night of my life,\u201d said a grinning, teary-eyed Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, upon her selection as winner of the fourth season of Master Chef Israel. The April 5 broadcast had more than a third of Israel staying at home on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[1527,1528],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-master-chef-israel","tag-nof-atamna-ismaeel"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}