“My love of food began at early age, helping my mother cook and set the table,” says Yaniv Cohen, aka the Spice Detective. “I grew up in a Sephardic Jewish family, with NorthAfrican and Middle Eastern roots, and food was and is a passion, a way of life.”

Cohen has been on a hot streak the past few years: opening Ja a in Miami—named for the Israel port city (bottom right)—and coming out with a cookbook. Now his baba ganoush and hummus bar have made their way north, to Hallandale Beach, with a second Jaffa.