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Fast Forward WATCH: In Minnesota, Kosher Cookies Served By The Bucket
Kosher fair fare? It sounds unlikely, but at the Minnesota State Fair, family owned area business Sweet Martha’s serves warm cookies by the bucket and ice cold milk to hungry visitors. Area chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern says the cookies are so good, he eats “about a bucket and a half a day.” Watch:
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Fast Forward Illinois Law Takes Aim at Camel and Pig’s Milk
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill requiring that milk not from a cow be labeled as such. The bill’s signing on Aug. 6 followed a concerted lobbying effort by the Chicago Rabbinical Council, an Orthodox rabbinical and kosher certification organization. A previous law, according to a C.R.C. press release, had allowed the sale of…
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Food It’s Baby Goat (Cheese) Season
Baby goats enjoy a moment of snuggling in the Adamah barnyard. Photograph by Meredith Cohen. I don’t know many people who are immune to the cuteness of baby goats. They are fluffy, and tiny, and gangly, and wobbly. They like to climb on top of things and then immediately leap off, limbs flying. They make…
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Food The Milky Way: How One Kibbutz is Changing the Milk Industry
Crossposted from Haaretz A series of inventions by a talented member of Afikim made the kibbutz a major player in the global dairy industry. Today, their computerized milking systems can be found in over 50 countries and will soon supply some 40% of Vietnam’s milk consumption. “It’s a fairly trivial sort of love,” she says…
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The Schmooze Milk Masters: Israeli Cows Overcome Odds To Become Most Productive
In 1962 Jewish Agency officials declined to give Kibbutz Yotvata a grant to set up a dairy herd. The kibbutz is in the hot desert near Eilat, and experts said that cows couldn’t live in such a climate. Similar skepticism was voiced decades earlier, when Zionists first started dairy farming in this dry part of…
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Food Mixing Bowl: The World’s Best Babka; Award-Winning Israeli Wines
Chowhound argues that the world’s best chocolate babka can be found in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Israelis were surprised to see fraudulent posters appearing to be from the Ministry of Health decrying the health risks of drinking milk. From a Swedish advertising student comes Neighbor Dining. Social media and hachnasat orchim (the Mitzvah of welcoming guests) come…
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