How did Ruhama Shitrit, an Israeli teacher living in Boston, become an Israeli food influencer with over half a million followers? She has been living in the U.S. for 18 years, raising four children (two have already left home), teaching at a Jewish school, and never stops thinking about what else she could do.
She has always cooked, always loved to serve home-cooked meals to the children, especially Iraqi food like the one she grew up eating at home. 1 View gallery Ruhama Shitrit ( Photo: Heidi Aaronson ) COVID is the reason that brought her even deeper into the kitchen. She spent a lot of time cooking until her children suggested she open an Instagram account and upload her dishes and recipes there.
No one had any idea how this small step would change her life. And so, at the age of 50, she learned to photograph, edit, and operate a busy Instagram account. View this post on Instagram A post shared by RUHAMA SHITRIT (@ruhamasfood) "I keep saying that I'm a one-woman show, I do everything myself, think of the recipes, shoot, and edit.
I bought equipment and learned to operate everything by myself. People like my voice-over, the narration of the recipes, which is something that has become the hallmark over time of my account and even received imitations here and there." You speak fluent Hebrew in your home, you publish your recipes in Hebrew as well, you are not an American Jew, you are Israeli and you talk about it all the time, doesn't that affect you sometimes? "I speak to .