So we’re driving along to Fuquay-Varina for my daughter’s clogging classes and Alexander is eyeing a can of Coke Zero with avaricious intent when he spies the U in the circle notation.
Now, he’s been on a “Descendants 2” kick of late and the U made him think of his favourite character Uma.
As I had a captive audience and a cousin troublemaker of the best kind, I tried explaining the basic ideas of kashrut (kosher) as I understand them…the idea of keeping meat and dairy totally separate, items that are considered neutral (neither meat nor dairy), often a household that keeps kosher having multiple sets of cookware/dinnerware to enforce the separation, etc.
So Katie asked if Miss Hannah kept kosher and I had to tell her I honestly didn’t know. But she was especially curious wondering how a cheeseburger would work under the rules of kashrut.
And thus it was confirmed that I’m hardly a scholar on the subject! 🙂
And of course last night was Taco Tuesday which prompted the question this morning about how tacos with cheese would work?
As it turns out, there is actually non-dairy cheese that actually is certified kosher. So now we know how our favourite troublemaker would pull it off… 🙂
May your Rosh Hoshanah be happy and fruitful for the new year! 🙂
Erik Williams
20 Sep 2017(Marti Barker Maurer)
Thank you Erik, Alexander and Katie! We do not keep kosher. That is a personal choice for us. However, on holidays (including Shabbat) we usually do keep kosher. It’s very complicated and I am sure Hannah would be happy to tell you all sometime, perhaps over FaceTime after the holidays. Shana Tova to you as well.
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I was just reading an article explaining how many of the laws of kashrut came about…I have to say it is right fascinating. I really loved the bit about the segregation of the laws between those with rational explanation, those by command/edict, and kashrut apparently falling into the “there isn’t a rational explanation from available texts but do it anyway” according to the author.
I’ll keep reading because it’s the mysteries such as this that I find fascinating about religious laws / beliefs / practices.
I’m pretty sure I’d be completely hopeless at keeping kosher…I’m too much of a fan of bacon and shrimp and they’re both on the strictly verboten list.
My stepfather who professed to be Jewish at certain points of his life (and the Germans thought he was Jewish when he lived there with his family) was equally hopeless at it. On one of the late night food runs, he’d invariably turn into Hardee’s for a “bacon double deluxe” which would torpedo several of the kashrut restrictions in one fell swoop. I used to tease him in their drive-through queue that he had to be the most unorthodox person I had ever met…and we’d both have quite a laugh about it.
A hearty shana tova to you guys from your decidedly unorthodox and non-kosher cousin! 🙂