This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Opinion Who gets to say what is kosher? A Long Island restaurant is caught in the crosshairs
Disputes over the business of kashrut have become a regular feature on the dockets of U.S. courts.
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Culture Grocery store displays are full of matzo — but none of it is kosher for Passover. Why?
It begs the question: Why does non kosher-for-Pesach matzo even exist?
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News The fifth question: Why is this year’s seder so much more expensive than other seders?
Stan and Esther Morhaime reviewed the receipt on the way back to their car. Their stop at a Los Angeles glatt kosher market was one in a series of several grocery trips they planned to make before they host two seders next week. They had just dropped about $400. Esther said the same items might…
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Food It’s artichoke season: here’s your harvest dinner menu
My artichokes took a beating in the December storms, which they liked. By last week the wide dusky green leaves and stalks, swollen fat from all the water, produced bouquets of tight, cone-shaped flower buds. That’s when I called dinner. Last winter at the Forward’s virtual gala, I auctioned off an Artichoke Harvest Dinner for…
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News L.A.’s Got Kosher closes restaurant to focus on challah
A stalwart of the Los Angeles kosher restaurant scene has closed its doors, citing the pandemic’s effect on business. The kosher Tunisian restaurant Harissa and its adjoining bakery and deli Got Kosher have closed for good, chef and owner Alain Cohen announced on Sunday. “We have been losing money for months and it is not…
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Recipes Our 10 best Jewish recipes of 2021
Food historians will look back at the pandemic as a time that pushed even more Americans to discover that meals can be something you make yourself. For those who already cooked regularly, quarantine, shortages and closed restaurants forced us to get even more creative, stretching ourselves into new techniques and cuisines. These 10 best recipes…
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News Seeking kosher Chinese food in Atlanta? The answer is just off Christmas Lane — really.
In Atlanta, just off a road called Christmas Lane, a Kroger grocery store stands in the heart of Toco Hills, the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Inside the kosher supermarket, a small glatt kosher Chinese restaurant — Chai Peking — occupies a space of just 500 square feet. And around Yuletide, the traffic on Christmas…
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Food I tested five nondairy milks. Guess which makes the best pumpkin pie?
On a quest for the perfect dairy-free kosher pumpkin pie
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