Ashdod Travelers guide

Culinary arts 199 When she was eight, Efrat (Espa) Zana's world was shattered. Her mother, Addis, a dominant wonder woman, a role model for all the women of the small village of Attia in the Gondar region of Ethiopia who copied her recipes and admired her cooking, passed away at a young age, leaving behind a husband, two daughters and four sons shocked and in pain, and an entire village orphaned and grieving. Efrat's only sister was at the Sudanese border in a failed attempt to immigrate to Israel together with her husband. Since in Ethiopia men were forbidden to engage in household chores in general, and cooking and cleaning in particular, the family's burden fell on the fragile shoulders of the eight-year-old girl. She matured overnight, and without gas and electricity, but with a little help from her siblings and neighbors, she began cooking for her family. The legacy of her mother Addis was her guiding light, and her voice and instructions echoed in her ears all the time. A-year-and-a-half later, the family was informed of Operation Solomon, and together with her father and brother Efrat immigrated to Israel at the age of nine-and-a-half. However, while other immigrants her age got acclimated at boarding schools and educational institutions, Efrat stayed at home to take care of the needs of her father and brothers, until finally, in order to alleviate her plight and the lack of childhood experience, her father sent her to the religious boarding school in Kfar Batya. When her father passed away the family was once again in pieces. Just before his passing he asked her to go to school and learn, and she decided to fulfill his will. While providing for herself and her siblings, she graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering. She got married in 2005, and after living with her husband in Australia for five years as emissaries for Keren Hayesod, and now a mother of four children, she still had one more dream to fulfill. She opened the Addis Alem Ethiopian restaurant in Ashdod. The Amharic name means "a new world", and it commemorates the name of her unforgettable mother. Efrat became the chef in the restaurant she owned, and together with the delicious Ethiopian dishes from her mother's home, heartwarming service and a smile, she receives loving compliments and a great deal of demand from all over the country and abroad, as well as the fulfillment of the dream to continue on her mother's path. 5 Habanaim St. 053-2736551 Sunday-Thursday 11:00 until midnight; after Sabbath by advanced booking