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A few of my friends have confided that they eat in vegan restaurants. They insist that there is nothing not kosher, nothing traif about them. All of the ingredients are kosher, would pass the keen eyes, the supervision of a mashgiach, a rabbi trained in kashrus.
And vegan is healthy, right? So we're good on both scores-- the food is kosher and it is healthy! Who needs kashrus supervision?! (The other argument is that the process of getting a kosher certification and maintaining it is expensive-- and people who start restaurants aren't usually flush).
Except here's the thing. If a person keeps the kosher dietary laws it isn't for health. People might say that eating kosher is healthier, and that might be true, but certainly it is how we eat, primarily how much we eat that will define if eating one way or another is healthy or not.
What's that expression?
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan wrote that, and I've lived under its onus since FD attended a nutrition CME (continuing medical education) seminar years ago. But he lives with me and I don't eat meat, so it wasn't like he's talking to a neanderthals in his kitchen.
We'll not going into the vegetarian thing on this blog. You either get it or you don't.
So why kosher?
Those of us who keep the dietary laws are following biblical commandments. We can make sense of many of the commandments. I mean, should people kill other people? Probably not in most circumstances, mainly nearly never.
Those who "keep kosher" are following the rules because they believe that Moses really did get the Torah, the word of G-d in Heaven, a few thousand years ago. She descended upon the Jewish People, some 600,000 of them (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no rabbi), and we've suffered from PTSD ever since. It was scary. There's a frum (means religious, rhymes with room) psychologist who said this and it makes sense. Explains our universal anxiety. I'll try to get his name.
So one of the things we're supposed to stay away from is worms. And if you look at any good Indian food restaurant blog or website and read recipe instructions, the writer will tell you to check carefully for worms. Slice peas and beans where worms like to hang out and get a good look. If they have been stored in cool places this is less likely, the revelation of a worm.
Who wants to eat worms? Even if they were kosher, my gut tells me that no one is into worms.
We'll get into the Indian goddess in the kitchen who blesses the food another day. Cooking Indian isn't the only thing on the bucket list on a Friday.
Good Shabbos, Shabbat Shalom, Gmar Tov
The Kosher Indian
A few of my friends have confided that they eat in vegan restaurants. They insist that there is nothing not kosher, nothing traif about them. All of the ingredients are kosher, would pass the keen eyes, the supervision of a mashgiach, a rabbi trained in kashrus.
And vegan is healthy, right? So we're good on both scores-- the food is kosher and it is healthy! Who needs kashrus supervision?! (The other argument is that the process of getting a kosher certification and maintaining it is expensive-- and people who start restaurants aren't usually flush).
Except here's the thing. If a person keeps the kosher dietary laws it isn't for health. People might say that eating kosher is healthier, and that might be true, but certainly it is how we eat, primarily how much we eat that will define if eating one way or another is healthy or not.
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What's that expression?
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan wrote that, and I've lived under its onus since FD attended a nutrition CME (continuing medical education) seminar years ago. But he lives with me and I don't eat meat, so it wasn't like he's talking to a neanderthals in his kitchen.
We'll not going into the vegetarian thing on this blog. You either get it or you don't.
So why kosher?
Those of us who keep the dietary laws are following biblical commandments. We can make sense of many of the commandments. I mean, should people kill other people? Probably not in most circumstances, mainly nearly never.
Those who "keep kosher" are following the rules because they believe that Moses really did get the Torah, the word of G-d in Heaven, a few thousand years ago. She descended upon the Jewish People, some 600,000 of them (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no rabbi), and we've suffered from PTSD ever since. It was scary. There's a frum (means religious, rhymes with room) psychologist who said this and it makes sense. Explains our universal anxiety. I'll try to get his name.
So one of the things we're supposed to stay away from is worms. And if you look at any good Indian food restaurant blog or website and read recipe instructions, the writer will tell you to check carefully for worms. Slice peas and beans where worms like to hang out and get a good look. If they have been stored in cool places this is less likely, the revelation of a worm.
Who wants to eat worms? Even if they were kosher, my gut tells me that no one is into worms.
We'll get into the Indian goddess in the kitchen who blesses the food another day. Cooking Indian isn't the only thing on the bucket list on a Friday.
Good Shabbos, Shabbat Shalom, Gmar Tov
The Kosher Indian
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