samedi 7 avril 2018

Eating Out With Kosher Meals

By Douglas Richardson


Eating out the Jewish way has never been easier especially if one lives in a neighbourhood with a strong Jewish community. Kosher meals are to be had as a take out or just sitting down and enjoying favourite specialities in this type of cuisine. Over Passover, Jews the world over partake of meals such as chicken soup with kneidlach amongst many others.

It is a very simple exercise to order favourite dishes and this can be done over the Internet. Passover is a time of great celebration and is the story of the Exodus out of Egypt many hundreds of years ago. It is celebrated over the month of Nisan in the Hebrew Calendar and this time falls in spring in the north and autumn in the south.

It commemorates the time that the Children of Israel left Egypt where they were in bondage as slaves. The story of the Exodus from Egypt is read from a book called the Haggadah which alludes to the story of the Jews who left Egypt under the guidance of a prophet known as Moses. From there they were lead into the desert where they reached a mountain called Har Sinai.

This is the time when the Israelites came out of slavery having served the Egyptians for almost four hundred years. They were lead out by Moses and shown a new set of laws that is believed was handed down from G-d to Moses on Mount Sinai. Food is always king and at this time there is no exception to the many dishes that are served at this time.

Because the Israelites had to leave Egypt in a hurry, the bread that they were baking for the journey did not have time to rise. Thus it is eaten during this time to commemorate just that and no other risen bread is allowed to be consumed. This unleavened bread must be baked by Jews alone in order to render it kosher.

Apart from this, at the Seder meal, other food items are consumed such as Haroseth. This is a mixture of almonds, wine and nuts that symbolizes the mortar that was needed in construction of the many different buildings the Jews of that time were forced to build as slaves. It is eaten with matzah to commemorate the difficult times that they laboured in Egypt.

Other foods that are eaten are gefilte fish with chrain. Gefilte fish is a fish ball essentially and is eaten with horseradish. The horseradish is bitter to commemorate the bitter lives that were lived during this time and to remind the Jewish people of today the hard times that Jews have had to live through throughout the millennia.

All in all, eating is fun and just like other nations of the world, Hebrews as they are also called, have many variety of dishes that they consume during the year and especially on festivals. These are all symbolic of difficult times as well as celebratory ones throughout the year. It is best to ensure that they are kosher before consuming them and this can be determined by a label on the product labeled that they are one hundred percent the real deal.




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