Credit: Lamb ragu hummus with crispy chickpeas sits on a table at Shaya in New Orleans. In 2015, Alon Shaya opened his namesake restaurant, a bustling Israeli eatery on chic Magazine Street, that the James Beard Foundation named the Best New Restaurant in the U.S. in 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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