The Carmel Market featured the most diverse setting for us yet. It was comprised of tourists struggling to communicate with native merchants, pungent spices, vibrant colors, various fabrics and their differing textures, and foods ranging from cold and refreshing to warm and gooey. Hadar Glick told us to investigate the market using one of our five senses, to photograph and/or buy items as evidence, and to decide on one word to describe our interpretations of the market. My group was Shira, Erica, and I. We were assigned the sense taste. With that we documented Erica’s and my Aroma drinks through triptychs as well as our lunch in a pasta café just outside the main street of the shuk. As we ventured through the market we found so many other opportunities to investigate taste. It became clear to us that with the food, you can judge a book by its cover. We saw fresh mangos, dragon fruit, olives, cherries, as well as smoothie and juice stands with other beautifully colored fruits and vegetables to offer. The word we figured best represented the market to us was #Fresh. Throughout the market we found so many trendy, hip, and fresh items of clothing and art that tied into taste by also being fresh. It was such a fun time to be able to roam free and investigate a small part of the country that holds so much of what we’re studying as we explore five main characteristics of Israeli identity – ideas about Israeli opposites and how they work – ethnicity, right versus left politics, Jewish versus non-Jewish, religious versus secular, and the class gap. Yet again, food, and a simple busy street market, showed a harmonization of it all.