Delicious and Indulgent Vegan Red Bean Kebab!
When I was a little boy, my Romanian grandfather used to take me to south Tel Aviv to eat kebabs at his friends’ Romanian restaurants on Salame Street.
He would take me to Mishu and Vinku’s restaurants to eat Mititei (Romanian kebab).
(If you’re not Romanian, you should know that Romanian nicknames end in “-cu” – for example, I’m still called Haggai-cu by my family).
I remember feeling uncomfortable telling my grandfather that I hated Mititei: I hated the heavy feeling afterward, and I hated the garlic burps that wouldn’t stop even hours later.
I always preferred a pita with hummus and pickles from Livenski’s delis, which Grandma Sara used to prepare for me sometimes for school breaks.
To this day, I don’t know where she got those perfect pitas from.
Grandpa used to drink a lot of light beer, I used to drink dark beer.
And he would elaborate on stories about women he loved before the war (and after).
