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Kosher And Halal Meat Can No Longer Be Labeled Organic In The EU
The European Union’s highest court just ruled that halal and kosher meat cannot be labeled organic if the animal involved has not been stunned before death. The judge’s ruling states that products marked with the official EU organic label must have been farmed with the highest standards in farming welfare. Religious slaughter, which for kosher…
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The Orthodox World Gets Its Own Indie Meat Magazine
“The goal was always to create a magazine that would be gorgeous and stunning, whether it was kosher or not,” says Shifra Klein, sitting in her Long Island home slash workspace, where she and her husband Shlomo create “Fleishigs”, a kosher magazine dedicated to meat. Fleishigs magazine is glossy and well-shot, and it appears to…
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How To Make Your Dishes Pop On Instagram: A Food Stylist’s Secrets
Judy Haubert has been making food camera-ready since 2008, when she began assisting the head stylist at Saveur Magazine with his shoots. These days, she’s got her own roster of A-list clients, from the Meredith Corporation to The New York Times. “I love my job,” says Haubert. “It’s just food, you know? It’s not rocket…
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Our Favorite Food Instagrammers Tell Us Their Must-Have Kitchen Spices
Humans have been using spices as a flavor short-cut for centuries, and there’s a reason for that. Spices are an easy way to elevate any dish. With a sprinkle of sumac, you can give your dish a Middle Eastern jolt, a bay leaf can lend a boring bowl some woodsy depth, and a sprig of…
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A Historian’s Cafe In Montreal’s Jewish Museum Re-Defines What Jewish Food Means
90,780 Jews live in Montreal. That’s 2.4% of Montreal entire population, according to a 2011 household survey. As a result, Jewish food has played a significant role in Montreal’s food culture, with the Montreal versus New York bagel debate perpetually rearing its head and the smoked meats Jewish immigrants brought to Montreal becoming the stuff…
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Dr. Ruth and Mr. Peanut Team Up To Give Sex Advice
“I love your nuts,” sex expert Dr Ruth says to Mr. Peanut in Dr. Ruth’s #Crunchtime Hotline, part of an unusual marketing strategy from the Planter’s brand, which is owned by Kraft/Heinz. Dr. Ruth might be ninety years old (while Mr. Peanut is 103 years old), but her sex advice is timeless. “Tell your friends…
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In The Heart Of Oregon — A Kosher Brewery Thrives
To make the Janis Hoplin beer from Leikam Brewery, first gather all the ingredients for a 6-8 hour brew day. Meld the grains for an hour and a half. Put in about 400 pounds of barley. Then put the beer in the fermenter for about three weeks. Then bring the beer to a conditioning tank….
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Oxford Students Are Trying To Ban Kosher And Halal Meat
At Somerville College in Oxford, the Junior Common Room, a student representative group, passed a motion to ban meat that was not stunned before slaughter. As Jewish law forbids the use of stunning, and it has been the subject of contentious debate among halal-eaters, this has been perceived as a ban on kosher and halal…
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With These Kim Kushner Recipes
Flourless Chocolate-Almond Gooey Chewy Giant Cookies Feel free to swap out the almonds for your favorite nuts. As you’ll see, I suggest placing parchment squares (aka parchment paper that’s been cut into small squares) in between each cookie after they have been baked and cooled to prevent them from sticking to one another. Makes about…
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I Heart Kim Kushner’s Kosher Cookies
I know, I know: Valentine’s Day is not a Jewish holiday. Still, when Kim Kushner’s new cookbook, “I Heart Kosher,” landed on my desk, my heart beat a bit faster as I flipped through the dessert section and read her recipes for marvelous meringue kisses, chocolate-dipped figs with pistachios & rose petals, and flourless chocolate-almond…
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Boris Fishman Celebrates Soviet Food In ‘A Savage Feast’
It took author Boris Fishman close to six years to figure out “A Savage Feast”. It went through many iterations, as a cookbook, as a pure memoir, and ultimately ending up as a fusion of the two. The idea was born in 2004, when Fishman’s grandmother, whom he calls “the kitchen wizard of the family,”…
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