Daiya Foods has contacted us and quoting their FAQ… “All Daiya products except for our pizzas are OU Kosher certified.” http://www.daiyafoods.com/our-products/faqs [Webmaster modified: 2013-08-15 2:05 PM] DAIYA VEGAN PIZZAS Cheeze Lover’s Pizza -finally, a pizza for everyone New Daiya Pizzas are the first brand of dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free pizza! Available in four delicious flavours: Continue Reading »
FROM THE NY DAILY NEWS Food More and more creative chefs and entrepreneurs are expanding the range and quality of kosher foods Restaurants like Pardes in Brooklyn and JSoHo in Manhattan turn out dishes made with lamb or veal ‘bacon’ By Michael Kaminer / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Kielbasa. Bacon cheeseburgers. Texas BBQ. Oy, this Continue Reading »
OUR POSITION ON KITNIYOT DERIVATIVES KITNIYOT Perhaps no issue stirs as much debate as the debate swirling around kitniyot- generally translated as legumes. According to Ashenazi custom and law, we are not allowed to eat kitniyot on Pesach. Rabbi Yosef Karo, the creator of the Shulchan Aruch called the custom of not eating kitniyot a Continue Reading »
Not everything needs a Pesach certification. A few years back we wrote about a widow cleaner that was certified KP. As we saw it, it meant that if you ran out of dishes for your meal, you could use a window as a ready stand-in. But seriously folks, many things do not need special Pesach Continue Reading »
FROM FAILED MESSIAH BLOG Empire Kosher Poultry Suffers One Day Shutdown Empire logoEmpire Kosher Poultry had to shut down production for (at least) one day Thursday, allegedly because a shipment of chickens that arrived for Thursday’s slaughter were underweight. But because chickens are bred to grow very quickly, holding the chickens over until Monday will Continue Reading »
Fight for Your Quinoa! by. R. Yosef Kanefsky This one is in our hands. Quinoa has been a breath of fresh culinary air in the non-kitniyot Pesach kitchen, and has restored dietary sanity to us Ashkenazim. But the kitniyot zealots are lurking. The OU, for example, is equivocating on quinoa’s non-kitniyot status . The battle Continue Reading »
FROM FAILED MESSIAH Led by Agudath Israel of America, haredim are finding it hard to comply with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The law, which went into effect this year, is supposed to make school lunches healthier, and, according to a report in the Forward, allocates billions of dollars to make this possible. Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER TODAY (FEB. 19, 2013) NEW YORK — Visitors to this year’s Kosher Food and Wine Experience at New York’s Chelsea Piers on February 4th would have been hard pressed to miss the centered display of Got Cholent? Inc. Owned by Chef Ari White, Got Cholent?, together with its subdivision Gemstone Catering, provides original Continue Reading »
FROM THE NY TIMES In a Midtown neighborhood where pizza is scarce, Joey Allaham, who owns Solo, a kosher meat restaurant in the Sony building, is opening a little takeout pizzeria with a singular product: kosher pies with dairy products but no meat. Overseeing the baking is Giulio Adriani, a certified Neapolitan pizzaiolo who is Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER TODAY (FEB 19, 2013) NEW YORK — Menachem Sendrovic and Henry Stimler believe their model for a kosher restaurant is rife for today’s upscale kosher diner that may not necessarily fit the mold of more traditional kosher diners. They called their SoHo Restaurant Jezebel, served high-end wines that were not mevushal (cooked), featured Continue Reading »
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