Today is November 23, 2024 / /
Today is November 23, 2024 / /
FROM KOSHER TODAY (JUNE 3, 2013) Muslims Seek Kosher Business and Palestinian Coca Cola is Kosher London…Want to make a fancy Jewish wedding in the UK? How about the iconic Harrods Department Store? Surprisingly the world-renowned department store is now owned by the Qatari royal family – strict Wahhabi Muslims. According to the Jewish Chronicle, Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER TODAY (JUNE 3, 2013) So Who’s Buying Kosher? More Jews, Retailers Say New York…Various studies in the last decade showed that more non-Jews than Jews are buying kosher. Studies by Lubicom and Mintel in the ‘90’s and 2000’s showed that the majority of kosher consumers are in fact non-Jews. They included Muslims, Seventh Continue Reading »
FROM ISRAEL 21C Top 12 new fruit and vegetables species developed in Israel Israeli innovation isn’t just limited to high-tech, it also extends to the development of some of the world’s most popular new fruits and vegetables. By Abigail Klein Leichman May 28, 2013, Since the first half of the 20th century, Israeli agricultural wizards Continue Reading »
FROM MY JEWISH LEARNING Ingredients 1 cup Israeli cous cous 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp salt 1 1/4 cup water 1 yellow or orange bell pepper, diced 1 scallion, white and green parts diced 2 Tbsp diced red onion 3/4 cup diced cucumber 3/4 cup diced cherry tomatoes 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley Continue Reading »
peaches An estimated three-fourths of the Texas fresh-market peach crop is lost to a severe freeze. Temperatures in the low 20s in late March destroyed about 90% of peaches in the Fredericksburg, Texas, area, home to about half of Texas’ 3,000 fresh-market peach acres, said Dan Rohrer, president of Fredericksburg-based Rocky Hill Orchard and president Continue Reading »
Supermarkets in Israel are much like their American counterparts. Yet, in some ways, they are uniquely Israeli. We often shop at the Shufersol in Talpiyot, a most impressive store. Of course, there is the organic section and the bulk products section. Additionally, that store has a full department dedicated to appliances for the home both Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER TODAY (MAY 20) Tofurky, a manufacturer of vegetarian products, located one mile east of Oregon, is looking to the lucrative kosher market to continue to expand its rapidly growing line of Tofurky deli products as well as those made with Tempeh, a cultured cake of beans and/or grains that has been a staple Continue Reading »
FROM TABLET MAGAZINE Over the past two decades, molecular gastronomy has changed the way influential chefs cook in many parts of the world. Thanks to a recently opened store and a soon-to-open restaurant, Israel is finally starting to catch up to this weird world of experimental cooking. Molecular gastronomy, a term coined in 1992 by Continue Reading »
Travel day today. We are off to Jerusalem for a quick visit. Of course, we are flying El Al Business Class and fully expect to get the usual royal treatment for which they are justly famous! Every time we fly Business, we order the meat meal. Every time we get the same mystery meat, just Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER TODAY, MAY 6, 2013 Industry Refutes Professor’s Contention of Shortage of Kosher Meat LOS ANGELES — In an article that appeared last week in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal entitled “Israel and American Kosher Red Meat Supply Don’t Add Up,” Professor Pini Herman, an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Southern California Continue Reading »
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