By: Danya Weiner Before I got pregnant, I knew I would be the type to have some odd food issues like eating pickles with chocolate, aversion to coffee and an intense craving for ice cream at two in the morning. When I got pregnant, I couldn’t drink coffee for five months, but that was about it. I didn’t send my husband out to fulfill my sweet cravings and actually not much changed in terms of my culinary preferences. I do remember one single occurrence of an intense craving for red meat, prepared in a very particular manner. Luckily, my studio is located right next to the “Zalman” butcher shop in Yaffo, and I happen to be buddies with the owners Moshe and Moti. So I walk into the shop with a huge eight month belly and I tell him that I have a craving for….and he finished my sentence, Rocca steak. How did you know, I asked. With five kids, apparently his wife also had an intense craving for the exact same thing.  Weird.. I never thought and a thin rump steak was on the list of... 
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