It has been a few years since kosher beef jerky appeared on the market and, just as quickly, disappeared. In the meanwhile, those of us who like the stuff were left totally bereft, without a source of kosher beef jerky. Boo hoo for us!

Well, that is about to change, folks!

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“Kosher Heaven is the brainchild of five buddies that developed their friendship and a passion for meat together over four incredible years at Brandeis University. While we are from various Jewish communities around the globe with readily available kosher meat, we realized that the internet, the ultimate marketplace, lacks a “mom and pop” type kosher butcher. Sure, anyone can go to their local butcher to get an incredible ribeye steak or hot dogs, but only a few kosher butchers actually produce specialty products like beef jerky, sausage, and hard salami. Furthermore, if local butchers do make these products, very few are able to produce quantity and quality up to USDA standards to meet the online demand. Therefore, we recently opened to serve this specialty market with a mission to provide the tastiest and most innovative kosher meat products to the national Jewish community.”

In addition, this week’s Kosher Today newsletter included a blurb about us:
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Kosher Beef Jerky to Debut Nationwide
New York…Kosher beef jerky made its debut at Kosherfest ’06 and if five young entrepreneurs have their way, it will soon be at many stores throughout the country. Beef jerky is a popular snack amongst many non-kosher consumers but the kosher version has only appeared periodically by local butchers. Kosher Heaven hopes to change that with the introduction of the first USDA Certified Beef Jerky. Founded this past June, Kosher Heaven is currently offering its beef jerky on-line (www.kosherheaven.com) but soon hopes to be selling in kosher stores and even select gas stations. Determined to provide the best product possible to the marketplace, the group tried many different recipes and types of jerky, ultimately choosing biltong, a close relative of beef jerky that is made using a South African dried meat curing process. Kosher Heaven has worked tirelessly to make this product, which is part of the $1.3 billion meat snack industry, available to kosher consumers and the results have been astounding. Jonathan Waldstreicher and Benjamin Gober, two of the five partners, are promising additional innovative products such as Smoky Jerky, Bison Jerky and Salami Stix. The beef jerky is currently certified Glatt Kosher under the Atlanta (where the product is made) Kashrut Commission.

Nov. 26, 2006, 7:12PM

Kosher food arrives at U.S. stadiums

By JANET FRANKSTON LORIN Associated Press Writer
2006 The Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Jeffrey Striks has taken a bite of a new niche in the American kosher food market: sports stadiums. He got his start seven years ago, offering kosher food at concession stands at Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium in New York. Business is so good that he’s expanded his company, Strikly Kosher, and now operates kosher stands at Giants Stadium and Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey, Nassau Coliseum in Long Island and the Yankees’ minor league ball park in Staten Island.

His core market is the most observant Jews who follow the laws of kashrut, which restricts what food can be eaten and how it is prepared. But he’s also attracting customers who aren’t Jewish and perceive that kosher food is healthier. They are buying his knishes, chicken nuggets and “knockwurst” _ not the traditional German sausage but a chicken product designed to look like a hot dog.

“Everyone associates kosher with cleanliness,” said Striks, 49, a native of the New York borough of Queens. The market looking for a perceived healthier option is a growing segment in the kosher market, said Paul Crnkovich, whose company, Cannondale Associates, released a study this month about the kosher consumer. “Kosher is perceived in a similar way as being better for you and being healthier,” he said. Since typical stadium fare is hot dogs, selling kosher food at sports venues is a logical market, said Marcia Mogelonsky, a senior research analyst at Mintel, a market research firm in Chicago which estimates the American kosher food market to be $40 billion.

Others are capitalizing on the growing kosher market in stadiums. Striks plans to move outside the New York area, and a competitor, Kosher Sports Inc., has already moved into stadiums in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Both companies have menus that are glatt kosher, a stricter designation that usually applies to meat. The most observant Jews will eat only glatt kosher foods.

Opening a glatt kosher stand has its risks.

Often, kosher food products cost more than the non-kosher ones. It also means not being open on Shabbat _ Friday nights and Saturdays _ two of the busiest days in sports, and holidays including eight days over Passover and three high holidays. During baseball season, that translates into sales for only 50 of 80 home games, Striks said.

“We say liveliness comes from God,” he said. “Whatever we get, we get. The numbers go up every year.”

Steve Spencer of Livingston, N.J., found Strikly Kosher at Giants Stadium this year has been back for each of the three Jets games he attended. He is Jewish and doesn’t keep kosher, but likes the idea. “If I’m going to buy a hot dog, I’ll find the kosher stand,” said Spencer, 47, as he waited in line at a Jets game against the Chicago Bears. “I like the taste better. I assume the quality is better.” Joel Felderman, an observant Jew, said the kosher stadium stands allow him to enjoy games more. A Jets season ticket holder for more than 30 years, he had always eaten before games because he didn’t have glatt kosher alternatives in the stadium. “It makes me feel like I’m a real fan,” said Felderman, 53, an accountant from Oceanside, N.Y. “I can buy a hot dog like everyone else and not compromise my religious beliefs. I can get the total experience.”

That’s exactly the message that Aramark, the company that manages food services and contracts for vendors at many of the nation’s stadiums, wants to hear. “We’re always looking to incorporate ideas that fans will want to come back for,” said Aramark spokesman David Freireich. “A kosher menu is included in that menu.” Aramark is offering more kosher choices at stadiums in other markets by contracting with more companies, including Kosher Sports Inc. of Englewood, N.J. As of the 2006 season, Kosher Sports operated as the sole glatt kosher vendor at Shea, and the company has been battling Strikly Kosher in Jewish court over those rights. Other stadiums offer kosher products, but not to the degree of glatt kosher. Hebrew National hot dogs are an all-beef kosher product but is not glatt kosher, said Regina DeMars, a spokeswoman for ConAgra, the company that owns the brand. Hebrew National products are sold in 14 baseball stadiums around the country, including Wrigley Field in Chicago, Turner Field in Atlanta and Fenway Park in Boston. Fans of the Denver Broncos and Colorado Rockies can also buy kosher dogs from Zaler’s Kosher Korner at Invesco Field and Coors Field. Over the last year, the company has expanded at Invesco from one stand to 13, said owner Arnie Zaler. He sells kosher hot dogs, Italian beef and hot pastrami sandwiches. The stands are not glatt kosher but Zaler said most of his customers don’t care because they are not Jewish. “People are so nervous about what they’re eating,” said Zaler, whose family has run the business for 94 years. “They’re not sure what kosher is, but they know there’s some process that makes it healthier. They know they won’t get a lot of junk in their hot dog.” That’s why Becca Murphy, who is not Jewish, waited in line at the Strikly Kosher stand at the Jets game. “Sometimes it sounds nicer than a hot dog filled with grossness,” said Murphy, 26, a teacher from Eatontown, N.J. “Sometimes you pay for quality.”

We recently got to taste some Pierre’s Sorbet. It was incredible! Definitely a Kosher Nexus Five Fork winner! The best part about these incredible sorbets (after the taste that is) is that they are OU pareve. That’s right, boys and girls- pareve! They are also fat free, cholesterol free, and, as we said before, dairy free!

We tried the Peach flavor and the Passion Fruit. Both were excellent. Each one tasted exactly the way fresh fruit should taste. We wanted to taste more, but our chaperones were on full blown alert status lest we break the diet, so we were barely able to get the two teensy tiny tastes we did get. On the other hand, people at the booth were heard to be making strange mewing sounds as they enjoyed the various flavors.

And just what are those flavors, you ask?

Chocolate, Lemon, Peach, Passion Fruit, Strawberry and Raspberry. Try them all- they are truly great!

www.pierres.com

Not available in any store. No!
Only available on line via the company’s web site.

What is it? It is the multi pack of incredible new flavors of M and M candies. The new flavors are, of course, kosher.

Try these on for size:

New flavors for M&M’S

Posted Nov 16th 2006 12:04PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Chocolate, Candy, New Products
Aside from a few limited edition flavors, such as the mint chocolate that is released around Christmas, M&M’S aren’t candies that get too exotic. They stick to milk, dark and white chocolate, with the occasional nut or other filling thrown in. But now, on their website, M&M’S is launching eight new flavors of the popular candies. The new flavors, which are sold in a “premium collectible” tin, include:

• All That Razz – Creamy white chocolate + milk chocolate + raspberry-flavored candy shell
• Eat, Drink and Be Cherry – Creamy white chocolate + milk chocolate + black cherry-flavored candy shell
• A Day at the Peach – Creamy white chocolate + milk chocolate + peach-flavored candy shell
• Orange-U Glad – Creamy white chocolate + milk chocolate + orange-flavored candy shell
• AlmonDee-licious – Almond + creamy white chocolate + candy shell
• Mint Condition – Creamy white chocolate + milk chocolate + mint-flavored candy shell
• Nut What You Think – Peanut + creamy white chocolate + candy shell
• Cookie Mintster – Crispy center + dark chocolate + speckled mint-flavored candy shell

Unfortunately, there is no indication that these flavors will be available offline, so if you want to try them, you’ll have to purchase the whole $49.95 package. Alternatively, you could get the tin as a gift for an M&M-loving family member and just “share” with them.

Wowzers! We are seriously full. The only problem with eating at Mollie B’s is that four or five days later you have to eat again!!

Mollie had a house full of hungry people, so she was at her Southern hospitality best! From 2:30 until almost 8:00pm, the food never stopped. Gluttons that we are, neither did we!

The pre dinner snack was mini hot dogs, chopped liver, barbeque ribs made with a home made sauce, and fliegelach (wings)- a huge mountain of them, sticky, sweet, and taam gan eden!

There were crudities and salsas and chips and nuts and probably a few more things that we missed.

Dinner was enough to feed two starving nations:

Of course there was turkey- succulent, moist, perfect turkey. There was a magnificent roast, too. String beans with mushrooms, three different gefilliks (stuffings), some made in the bird, some not. There was an amazing dish of brussel sprouts with cranberries and walnuts. The sprouts were crunchy, not mushy, so the taste was sort of redolent of mustard. There was a salad of hearts of palm, tomatoes and asparagus tips. Oven cooked potatoes, sweet potatoes. Purple cabbage, carrot and cranberry salad. A cranberry sauce made with kosher gelatin. A regular tossed salad with home made dressing. A vegetable souffle. And whatever else we may have missed.

Dessert was never ending: pumpkin pie, apple pie with chocolate praline, pumpkin pie with chocolate praline, two different coconut custard desserts, brownies, fruit, chocolate chip challah bread pudding, apple raisin cinnamon kugel, more nuts, and assorted beverages.

As we said above, we may have to eat again in a few days.

Thanksgiving at Mollie B’s is a great day of family and friends, good discussion (much of it in Yiddish), performing children, and a genuine sense of gratitude to God for all the blessings He bestows upon us. Thank you Mollie B!