Kosher USA : : How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food / / Roger Horowitz.

Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manischewitz wi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 27 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Uncle Stu's Question
  • 1. My Family's Sturgeon
  • 2. Kosher Coke, Kosher Science
  • 3. The Great Jell-O Controversy
  • 4. Who Says It's Kosher ?
  • 5. Industrial Kashrus
  • 6. Man-O-Manischewitz
  • 7. Harry Kassel's Meat
  • 8. Shechita
  • Conclusion: Kosher Ethics / Ethical Kosher ?
  • Epilogue: Remembering, Discovering, Thanking
  • Notes
  • Index