Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Food This Israeli Lab Has Produced Steak, Hold The Cow
Can creating real meat without real animals ever be possible? Israeli startup Aleph Farms claims the answer is yes — it has created the first lab-made steak. No, not soy or mushrooms that look like steak, real steak. Complete with blood vessels. The meat problem is one that has confounded the food world and environmental…
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Food A Kosher Meals Vending Machine Comes To Manhattan
In Midtown, where there was once a kosher food desert, there is now a vending machine stocked with fresh Kosher meals. The heckshered contraption is meant to serve the Jews working inside Midtown Manhattan’s 10 W 33rd Street, but folks hankering for a kosher salad and smoothie can slide past security towards the haven of…
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Fast Forward Any Way You Slice It, A Lot Of Our Bread Will No Longer Be Kosher
NEW YORK (JTA) — The largest baking company in the United States will be removing kosher certification from nearly all of its bread and rolls. Bimbo Bakeries USA confirmed to JTA that it will be removing the certification. The company produces brands including Arnold, Sara Lee, Stroehmann, Freihofer’s and others. Two of its major brands,…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Force Brooklyn Kosher Restaurants To Cancel Show With Lesbian Comic
A popular Jewish comedian has twice been forced to find new locations for her show after Brooklyn rabbis threatened to revoke the kosher status of the restaurants that had been booked because she is a lesbian. Leah Forster, who grew up in the Hasidic community and frequently pokes fun at Orthodox habits and lifestyles, was…
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Food This Startup Is 3D-Printing Vegan Faux Meat — And It’s Kosher
The future of food is being printed out as you read this. Eating actual meat, like people have done for centuries, has now been rendered gauche. Eating meat, or simulations of meat, is the new wave. From the impossible existence of the Impossible Burgerto the now equally impossible existence of 3D-printed vegan meat, the future…
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Food The Future Of Barbecue Involves Cholent — And Men Only
At the 12th annual Food Film Festival, Jewish food took center stage. In a room filled with people who paid top-dollar for a movie experience that ignited all their senses, along with brisket, arrosticini, and monkfish tail — cholent was on the menu. “What is this choo-lent?” asked George Motz, festival founder, to raucous audience…
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Fast Forward Swiss Kosher Butcher Shop Vandalized 4 Times In One Month
(JTA) — A kosher butcher shop in Basel, Switzerland has been vandalized four times in one month in what local Jews are condemning as an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation. In one of the attacks, the unidentified perpetrators removed the letter J from the German-language word for Jewish from a metal sign over the shop, as…
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Food L.A.’s Kosher Supa Offers CBD-Enhanced Coffee
Step into the aggressively hip Los Angeles Supa Coffee and there will probably be hip hop playing, hot butter coffee cooling, and food-coloring-free Instagram-friendly layered drinks. Oh, and you can add cannabidiol, or CBD, to whatever you want. Legal in California (and now in Canada), this anxiety-relieving compound commonly found in marijuana is currently being…
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