Today is January 31, 2025 / /
Today is January 31, 2025 / /
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 »
FROM KOSHER TODAY (MAY 6, 2013) Growing Number of Kosher Kitchens in Hotels Presents Challenges for Some Rabbis SANTA MONICA, CA — The Loews Hotel in Santa Monica features one of an estimated 40 designated kosher kitchens in the US. As many as 10 hotels have responded to a program by the Rabbinical Council of Continue Reading »
James Brown (AKA the godfather of soul) used to say, “Make it chunky like a monkey.” No, we never understood it, either! Now there is a company that has taken this theme to a most delicious place. Funky Chunky makes a whole lot of OU-D products that are all hand crafted by actual humans and Continue Reading »
Sigh. It had to happen sooner or later. After all, we have spinach hummus, garlic hummus, lemon hummus, so why not this new offering from Sabra? ASIAN FUSION GARDEN HUMMUS Traditional flavors of Asian cuisine join a classic Mediterranean dip. Bold ginger and delicate sesame are folded into the creamy hummus, and then garnished with Continue Reading »
SKITTLES ARE KOSHER IN ISRAEL. They are certified Kosher Mehadrin Parve by the Bedatz KF Rav Yisrael Lichtenstein of London and approved by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. They are being produced, though, in the Czech Republic at a Wriggly’s plant over there and then imported to Israel. Essentially, it appears that they were re-certified Continue Reading »
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