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MEDITERRANEAN DIET EXPENSIVE

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MEDITERRANEAN DIET EXPENSIVE

Posted on September 24, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sticking to a Mediterranean diet rich in fish, olive oil, legumes, fruit and vegetables is heart healthy, but expensive, maybe even prohibitively so, new research from Spain hints. Consequently, “upstream” measures — such as taxes on unhealthy foods and/or subsidies on healthy foods — may be needed to “increase the Continue Reading »

SHANA TOVA!

Posted on September 21, 2009

Ketiva V’chatima tova- may we all be written and sealed for good in the new year. May the new year be filled with an abundance of blessings from Heaven! Rabbi Jeffrey Rappoport- Editor in Chief Ms. Deborah Wenger- Production Editor Ms. Andrea Herrera- Contributing Editor Mr. Leonard DiPietra- Contributing Editor

BUT WILL IT BE KOSHER????

Posted on September 11, 2009

General Mills Unveils Wheaties Fuel – The New Breakfast of Champions The Evolution of the Iconic Breakfast Cereal Was Co-Created with Help from Champion Athletes Peyton Manning, Hunter Kemper, Kevin Garnett, Bryan Clay and Albert Pujols MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–After three months of consumer testing, Wheaties, “The Breakfast of Champions®,” announced today the evolution of its iconic Continue Reading »

NYC RESTAURANT NEWS

Posted on September 10, 2009

FROM KOSHER NY QUICK BITES: After a Long Week Mr. Broadway Reopens After a week of being closed by the DOH, Mr. Broadway re-opened for business yesterday and already experienced a steady flow for lunch. A staple in the kosher midtown lunch options Mr. Broadway famous sandwiches are ready for the ordering. Schnitzel Express Opens Continue Reading »

SECOND CLASS CITIZENS

Posted on September 8, 2009

All of us who keep kosher have had an occasion to attend a community affair, political affair, or something of that ilk, that is not kosher. As you sit there watching everyone eat their trefe meals, you wait for your kosher meal to arrive. Everyone else has had the obligatory fruit cup and the appetizer Continue Reading »

DEEP FRIED BUTTER

Posted on September 7, 2009

WARNING! THIS STORY IS ABOUT TREFE, BUT IT WAS TOO GOOD NOT TO PRINT!!! FROM THE WORLD OF CRAZY TREFE FOOD PRODUCTS: Move over, Twinkies: Deep-fried butter is here Inventor of fried Coke and fried cookie dough is ‘back with a vengeance’ State Fair of Texas Abel Gonzales Jr. says his deep-fried butter invention tastes Continue Reading »

CHAPEAU NOIR PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL

Posted on September 4, 2009

Manhattan, Thursday, Sept 3, 2009 We had the misfortune of having to drive in Manhattan yesterday evening and what did we see? Tens of cars festooned with rabidly anti Israel posters and probably several dozen black hatted men walking carrying posters with the same anti Israel diatribe. Of course, they were protesting the existence of Continue Reading »

YET ANOTHER REASON WHY THE STATE CAN’T BE IN CHARGE OF KASHRUTH

Posted on August 24, 2009

Many of you may recall, that years ago there was a company in NY that made pareve eclairs. The company was called Rich’s, and they also made pareve creamer and pareve whipped topping. Rich’s was an OU certified company. Well, it seems that every night as the mashgiach at the plant went to daven Maariv, Continue Reading »

MORE ON WHY THE STATE CAN NOT BE A POSEK

Posted on August 21, 2009

A local kosher bakery bought a crucial ingredient for baking bagels from a company called (and we are not using the real name, we are using a made up name, but one that captures the name of the real entity) The Wabasha Dairy Company. The product was pareve. In those days, it was not always Continue Reading »

WOULD YOU PAY MORE FOR DRAFT BEER AT HOME VS CANNED OR BOTTLED?

Posted on August 6, 2009

By DAVID KESMODEL MillerCoors LLC has begun testing the sale of $20 draft-beer systems for consumers to drink at home, part of a string of new products and package innovation from beer giants grappling for market share in a crowded, slow-growing industry. MillerCoors, the second-largest U.S. brewer by revenue, has begun testing the 1.5-gallon “Home Continue Reading »