Chapter 50, Luzata
Mom used to makes a special Tunisian Juice. Mom didn’t have an extencive menu, most of what she cooked I didn’t really like. But this juice was something good. It was made from an ingredient that takes time to collect, sometimes years. The juice is called “ Luzata ”, and it is made from bitter almonds. Not just bitter almonds, you can buy at the stores. This was made from the seeds of the apricot. The season of the apricot fruit is very short. A month or two at the beginning of the summer. Mom would buy maybe a kilo or two per week. After eating them we would break the very hard shells with a hammer and collect the almonds that are hidden inside. There for it would take about a year or even three to collect enough almonds to make one bottle of concentrated juice. When we returned to school from the Passover vacation, we found right next to the spot where we park our bikes, a thick and long pole laying on two metal legs and another pole leaning toward it. It was a balancing pole. At 10:...