Amy Atkins Sawyer
By Amy Atkins Sawyer
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Food 5 Smart Answers to Stupid Kosher Questions
If you keep kosher and have a diverse group of friends and dining partners, it seems inevitable that you will at some point have to explain yourself. Kosher can be complicated, and of course a 3,000-year-old practice will never be as fashionable as the diet du jour. Then again, Paleo came back from the Stone…
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Food Does This Mean You’re, Like Totally Orthodox?
SHORT, SERIOUS ANSWER: Either, “Yup, totally Orthodox!” Or “I keep kosher, but of the three main levels of Judaism, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform, I’d consider myself…” whichever the case may be. MORE EFFECTIVE RETORT: “Yeah, I keep kosher and many people who keep kosher don’t pray nine times a day or have curly sideburns.” Again,…
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Food You Can’t Eat Pepperoni Pizza?
SHORT, SERIOUS ANSWER: “No, because it’s pork, and because we don’t eat meat with milk, so we don’t eat meat with cheese.” MORE EFFECTIVE RETORT: “No milk with meat is TRADITION!” Crucial here, according to Nemko, is to say it like Tevye from Fiddler. CONCISE COMEBACK: “The Lord wouldn’t strike me dead… but why take…
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Food What Exactly Can You Eat If You Keep Kosher?
SHORT, SERIOUS ANSWER: “There are levels of keeping kosher. For the non-Orthodox, the laws really aren’t that restrictive once you get used to it.” MORE EFFECTIVE RETORT: “Ask me!” By offering an interactive response, you’re having a fun conversation, not giving a lecture, he says. CONCISE COMEBACK: “We take pity on piggies and shrimp makes…
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Food What’s With the Two Dishwashers?
SHORT, SERIOUS ANSWER: “Having two sets of dishes and two dishwashers keeps anything that touches meat and milk products separate.” MORE EFFECTIVE RETORT: “There’s a part of me that wonders about it too, and yeah it was an extra $400 for a dishwasher, but the world is not going to end. Some people buy shoes…
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Food Meet 5 Jewish Foodie Stars of Social Media
These 5 popular media mavens have enviable followings due to their inimitable takes on the wide world of Jewish food. What Jew Wanna Eat: Whatever jew wanna know about multimedia star Amy Kritzer can be found on her website, Instagram, Twitter or in her recently released book, “Sweet Noshings.” The blonde and bubbly blogger aims…
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