It's Hit or Miss in Finding Matzo San Jose Mercury News Two South Bay Trader Joe's don't have 'em at all, managers said: Not enough orders last year. Mollie Stone's, with stores in Palo Alto and San Mateo, has plenty.
Bread Stirs Deep Thoughts The New York Times Israel’s public debate shifted this week from Hamas to hametz. But it remained no less heated. Hametz is bread and other leavened products that many Jews do not eat for the eight days of Passover, which starts Saturday night.
Ritual and Repast Philadelphia Inquirer Passover couldn't happen until Suzanne Nahamo got her five-pound lamb. So she waited with her two children at the butcher counter of the Narberth Acme, transformed into a Passover bazaar yesterday as Jewish customers stocked up for their seders
Citing the case of Ernst Chaldni, who was ridiculed for his scientific discovery, we pose a question. Should we not rush to judgement on other others things we don't understand today.
April 19, 2008
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's a little something that I found for you to read with your morning coffee.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
What's Different this Passover?
No Margarine
The Wall Street Journal
It's the great kosher cooking crisis of Passover 2008.
A shortage of special kosher-for-Passover margarine is causing dismay in Jewish households across the nation as family cooks discover they can't make many of their traditional Passover meals without it.
Particularly irksome is the absence of kosher-for-Passover stick margarine, an essential ingredient in baking for the weeklong holiday starting at sundown Saturday.
"Margarine-gate, that's what we're calling it," says Rabbi Moshe Elefant, chief operating officer of the kosher division of the Orthodox Union, the leading kosher certification agency. Rabbi Elefant's phone has been ringing practically nonstop as Jews in and around Manhattan, where his organization is based, attempt to hunt down the precious commodity.
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Prep and Ritual nightroadsassoc.com Passover requires a lot of preparation. It officially begins the day after Purim, which occurs a month earlier, but many women (the preparation usually falls upon women - single men tend to go away for the holiday) start thinking about it as early as Chanukah.
Sweet Gefilte Fish Kashrut.com Place Gefilte fish roll (wrapped) in about one and one half inches of boiling water (aprox. 4 cm) Add 2 tbs. sugar Add small onion, sliced One cut carrot Simmer covered for one and one half hours
Pesach: Passover Judaism 101 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes ... you shall guard the unleavened bread, because on this very day I will take you out of the land of Egypt.
still thinking about today...
There are two companies that manufacture kosher margarine: World Cheese Products and Mother's (owned in part by Manischewitz). The shortage of kosher-for-Passover margarine is a result of Mother's not manufacturing any this year. Mother's has "production problems". That's certainly an understatement.
A one pound block of kosher margarine (from World Cheese) recently retailed in New York for $15 due to the shortage.
Too bad World Cheese didn't get some competitive intelligence and tool up on production and satisfy demand. They're letting retailers mark up the product and lose potential profit.
Adam Smith must be smiling.
I'd love to have an advantage like that over a competitor.
P.S. This month's "Owner's Manual" is excellent....world class (as always!)
forkhorn said...
At $ 15 per pound, I think I will do without.
Margarine is not good for you anyway. People should use olive oil.
To: Spearfish,
I prefer olive oil myself. The Talmud says that olive does not have to be kosher.
By the way, I'm not Jewish. I have often celebrated Passover at the home of an old friend of mine. It was always an honor. I decided to learn the traditions to enjoy the celebration, and, of course, appreciate the rich Jewish culture. My friend and his family are not religious but always keep Passover.
To: forkhorn,
I agree. Olive oil can be expensive, too, but it's healthier than margarine.