This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Food Roadside Gourmet: M.O. Eggrolls
Los Angeles, Calif. What to Order: Reuben, Truffled Knish It’s no secret that American Jews have long been in love with Chinese food. M.O. Eggrolls (the initials stand for “Montreal Open-Ended”), which dubs itself the first ever “Jewnese” operation, puts that sentiment into a truck. M.O. Eggrolls serves crispy egg rolls stuffed with deli meats…
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Food Roadside Gourmet: K-Wheelz
K-Wheelz Dallas, Texas What to Order: Challah Dog, Burrito Schmurito Tex-Mex’s focus on meat, beans and cheese makes finding a kosher take on the cuisine challenging. But Dallas’s lone kosher food truck, K-Wheelz, offers kosher Texans a taste of the local cuisine. Their specialty burritos, aptly dubbed Burrito Schmuritos, are filled with beans, blackened chicken…
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Food Roadside Gourmet: Old World Food Truck
Old World Food Truck San Francisco, Calif. What to Order: Schnitzelwich New York City transplant Kenny Hockert is bringing some Eastern European soul to the Bay Area, one cup of borscht at a time. His Old World Food Truck rolled onto the streets this spring after experimenting with recipes for chopped liver and pierogies at…
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Food A Beginner Foodie’s Guide to DC
While traveling in Washington DC with my boyfriend Dov on a hot summer weekend, I was refreshed by the large variety of seemingly-healthy restaurants around. Among them were a wide range of well-known hot spots like Whole Foods, as well as some lesser known options like the produce stands at Eastern Market. But, finding a…
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News The Kosher Cure
Holding a thinly sliced piece of prosciutto between two of her fingers, Marina, my Italian host mother, declared, “Dai, provalo!” Come on, try it! It was my first night living in Italy for a semester abroad, and I arrived as a kosher-keeping vegetarian. I hadn’t eaten any meat, let alone pork, for nearly four years,…
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Food Kutsher Tribeca’s Jewish Food Porn Flick
A knife slides seductively down a slender stalk of celery. A plump loaf of rye splits to reveal a seductive sprinkling of seeds. Tender slices of brisket fall on a cutting board as a voice-over moans “you’re driving me meshuggeneh” before dissolving into a breathy series of “oys.” Sound like a bizarre fetish video better…
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Food Defending a (Kosher) Kill
It is commonly remarked that the best lies told are those that contain some truth. And so it often seems to be with the argument, which returns like the tides every few years, that shechitah, kosher ritual slaughter, is intrinsically inhumane. That it stands apart from the modern, civilized form of animal slaughter the rest…
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Food Dutch Lawmaker Resigns Over Ritual Slaughter
A Dutch lawmaker resigned from his party in protest of its support for banning ritual slaughter, among other issues. Wim Kortenoeven announced his resignation from the Party for Freedom at a news conference last week in The Hague. Founded in 2005 by Geert Wilders, the party follows an anti-Muslim, pro-Israel policy. “Regarding ritual slaughter, I…
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