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 Baked Butternut Squash with Onion Caramel
Serves: 4 Original recipe: Page 54-55 The Chef’s Garden By Farmer Lee Jones Kosher issue: Meat and dairy Recipe adapted by: Chef Jordana Hirschel This recipe called for cornish hens glazed with a buttery onion caramel. After speaking with Chef Jamie Simpson, I learned that the focus of the dish was not chicken itself, but…
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Fast Forward Dispatch from Surfside’s only kosher market
To get a sense of how Surfside’s Jewish community has grown in recent years, head to Kosherland, a humble three-aisle grocery located a few blocks from the collapsed Champlain South condominium, and try to buy milk. Kosherland is the only kosher market in Surfside, and soon it will expand into the neighboring two storefronts. But…
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News How the heck did a ham get a kosher certification? This man knows.
Paul Finkelman was shopping for groceries at Price Chopper supermarket in Albany, NY, when his son asked him to come over to the deli aisle. Finkelman’s son, who had been looking for turkey, found packages of Price Chopper’s store-brand PICS sliced ham stamped with the Orthodox Union’s (OU) kosher certification. Finkelman was surprised that the…
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News Halva brownies and miso shakshuka: The UAE’s first major kosher kitchen opens for business
The gleaming new industrial kitchen on the grounds of one the Arab world’s busiest airport wouldn’t be remarkable except for one fact: it’s kosher. Kosher Arabia at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport is a registered producer of kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, set up in partnership with Emirates Flight Catering and CCL Holdings….
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Fast Forward Can shrimp and crab make your kosher Sabra hummus Salmonella-free?
There is a possible solution to Salmonella contamination in your kosher hummus: Shrimp and crabs. On Monday, Sabra, the world’s leading hummuseria, issued a voluntary recall on some containers of its Classic Hummus, a certified kosher product, for possible Salmonella contamination. According to a statement by Sabra and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approximately…
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Culture Was the Last Supper a ‘Seder?’ And 3 other vital Passover questions, asked and answered.
When we ask at our Seders why this night is different from all other nights, there are the stock responses and the ones we take for granted. We receive explainers on slouching, unleavened bread and why we dip our herbs. We don’t get into what Jesus’ Passover plans were in Jerusalem. In our Haggadot, we…
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Culture Kosher-for-Passover dog food? I wouldn’t recommend it
Those hoping for an observant hound might be in for an unpleasant surprise
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Food How a Southern Baptist woman launched a line of kosher cakes
It’s easy to understand how a Baptist woman from Tennessee ends up producing Southern-style cake mixes. But the proverbial icing on top? They’re kosher. King Preferred, run by LaTonya King, is perhaps the only non-Jewish, Black-owned kosher baking mix company in the world. Since 2018, her products – which are sold across the United States…
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