Kosher For Everybody: The Complete Guide To Understanding, Shopping, Cooking, And Eating The Kosher Way (arthur Kurzweil Book)

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This is certainly one of the most up-to-date and user-friendly English guides to keeping kosher. One fascinating chapter surveys the history of kosher-keeping in America (did you know that Revolutionary-era Jews in Rhode Island subsisted on chocolate and coffee for want of kosher meat?). The rest of the book is decidedly practical: Garfunkel ("The Kosher Companion") rehearses the origins of the Jewish dietary laws and reviews the basic rules e.g., meat products and dairy must be eaten separately, while some foods, like shellfish and pork, are flat-out forbidden. She explains how to decode the symbols that indicate a packaged food is certifiably kosher, and lists many national products, from Celestial Seasonings tea to Planters peanut butter, that have obtained kosher certification. Readers are also treated to delicious-sounding recipes, and a lengthy list of kosher eateries all over the country. The glossary is right up front, so readers can easily double-and triple-check the meanings of unfamiliar Hebrew and Yiddish terms....Anyone who delves into this book will find a wealth of clear information.

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Garfunkel.ffirs 6/28/04 12:59 PM Page iii Kosher for Everybody The Complete Guide to Understanding, Shopping, Cooking, and Eating the Kosher Way Trudy Garfunkel An Arthur Kurzweil Book Garfunkel.ffirs 6/28/04 12:59 PM Page i Garfunkel.ffirs 6/28/04 12:59 PM Page ii Garfunkel.ffirs 6/28/04 12:59 PM Page iii Kosher for Everybody The Complete Guide to Understanding, Shopping, Cooking, and Eating the Kosher Way Trudy Garfunkel An Arthur Kurzweil Book Garfunkel.ffirs 6/28/04 12:59 PM Page iv Copyright © 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-750-4470, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, e-mail: [email protected] Readers should be aware that Internet Web sites and businesses listed within may have changed or disappeared between when the book was written and when it is read. Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986 or fax 317-572-4002. Jossey-Bass also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garfunkel, Trudy. Kosher for everybody: the complete guide to understanding, shopping, cooking, and eating the kosher way / Trudy Garfunkel.—1st ed. p. cm. “An Arthur Kurzweil book.” Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-7879-7587-7 (alk. paper) 1. Kosher food. 2. Jews—Dietary laws. I. Title. BM710.G36 2004 296.7'3—dc22 2004006419 Printed in the Uni