[Sca-cooks] 2016 Silly Season Starts

[Susan Lin]

Thank you.  I know from my own research and experience that what makes
Jewish food "Jewish" isn't so much the recipe but finding the Kosher
ingredients.
A beef stew made from a kosher cut of beef may look identical to a beef
stew made from a non-kosher cut.
As long as you follow the laws of Kashrut you're pretty much okay.  A bacon
cheeseburger isn't ever gonna cut it no matter what kind of beef you use
(but darn if it ain't tasty!!)

I'll keep plugging along and I'll continue to be grateful to this group for
whatever assistance you provide.

Shoshanah

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:05 AM, <JIMCHEVAL at aol.com> wrote:

> As it happens, I'm researching the Jewish food of Paris right now. One
> issue that comes up is that Jewish food has always been hard to separate
> from
> the various host cultures of the DIaspora. One nineteenth century writer,
> for  instance, says that Jews preserved the older Germanic cooking;
> another to
> the  contrary that they introduced the dishes in question into it. When a
> Jewish  woman sent a twentieth century columnist a list of Jewish dishes,
> he
> quibbled  that a lot of them were really Russian or Hungarian. French
> Sephardic cooking is  hard to distinguish from the North African food
> commonly
> thought of as  Arab.
>
> Joan Nathan, in her book on Jewish food in France, says plainly that Jewish
>  food has always reflected the various cultures Jews encountered in the
> Diaspora.
>
> I was in contact a long time back with a woman in Israel who was working
> with early Hebrew texts from France and referred to some food mentioned in
> those. But otherwise. short of close analysis of the Bible, I'm not sure
> how
> one  would identify a food as being distinctly Jewish.
>
> For what it's worth, this text on a pregnant woman's diet doesn't go as far
>  back as you need, but is an unusually early description of Jewish  food.
>
>
> https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=605157142783588112#editor/target=po
>
> st;postID=593879345075625684;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;
> postNum=68;src=postname
>
>
>
> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
>
> FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century bread
>
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
> .html
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 7/31/2016 9:22:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> susanrlin at gmail.com writes:
>
> I  am Jewish
> and I want to explore the Jewish influences and the Jews and  Muslims lived
> in peace for a long  time.
>
>
>
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