This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Food The Curious History of Kosher Salt
Consider kosher salt: large, flaky, white grains that dissolve slowly in cooking. If you like to cook, you probably have a box of Morton or Diamond kosher salt in your cupboard, and if you are a chef, a small mountainous peak is likely sitting in a crock that you keep within arm’s reach in the…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Passover Knishes; 25 Ways To Use Matzo
You’ll be glad you bookmarked this one: 25 creative ways to use matzo, from s’mores to spinach and matzoh pie. [Buzzfeed] New Yorkers, Knishery NYC is taking orders for three kinds of Passover knishes. You can pick them up at Malt & Mold on the Lower East Side or have the “knish bike” deliver to…
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Fast Forward New York Mets’ Ban on Selling Kosher Hot Dogs at CitiField on Shabbat Is Upheld
Kosher Sports, Inc. scored big at the Super Bowl in New Orleans, where it had the concession to sell kosher stadium food to football fans. Unfortunately for the company, it has struck out in a legal dispute with a Major League baseball venue — Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. On Tuesday, KSI…
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Food Kosher French Fare Comes to Brooklyn’s Park Slope
“How could a kosher restaurant have opened in Park Slope without my knowing about it?” I unceremoniously asked of the first person to greet me as I walked into Chagall Bistro, who happened to be Dan Gicquel, the restaurant’s owner. Ten minutes before, I was settling in for a Sunday night dinner of hard-boiled eggs…
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News Quinoa, Trendy South American Grain, May Not Be Kosher for Passover
On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and deposit it nearby among the vast rows of cultivated quinoa. If that barley manages to make its way into a sifted batch of quinoa, and avoid detection during repackaging, it could wind up…
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Food OU To Certify Kitniot This Passover
The Orthodox Union wants to take the guesswork out of eating kitniyot on Passover. With no kitniyot kosher certification to go by, eaters of legumes and several grains during the holiday—traditionally Sephardi Jews, but now also others—have had to rely on their own judgment that there was no hametz, or leaven, in a food product….
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Fast Forward British Labour Leader Ed Miliband Vows To Back Israel and Protect Jewish Rites
Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has pledged to oppose boycotts of Israel and to protect Jewish customs, including circumcision and ritual slaughter. Speaking Thursday before a crowd of 300 at an event organized by Britain’s main Jewish umbrella group, the leader of the British opposition, who is Jewish, warned of the need…
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Opinion Locusts Go Biblical — But Are They Kosher?
If it were a movie, Israel’s real-life nightmare would be a cross between “The Birds” and “The Ten Commandments.” Just in time for Passover, the Holy Land has been plagued by millions of locusts swarming in from across the Egyptian border. Hysterical news reports warned Israelis in the southern part of the country to stay…
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