Treif!

S o there you are eating kosher sushi paging through a kosher magazine calling a friend on a kosher phone….

In a world where we can flavor our salads with kosher bacon-flavored bits where we serve kosher exotic cheeses in every shape color smell and language (Fancy a taste of Asiago? A slice of Pecorino Romano?) where hundreds of new and unexpected foods get a hechsher every year lately the word “kosher” seems to be used more often as a metaphor than as a literal halachic concept.

We Sisters love metaphors as much as anybody but we also love… food. Real food. This Schmooze is dedicated to kashrus at its most literal level. Join us on our treif culinary travel tour as we attend a nonkosher conference in Rome deal with an elegantly treif menu at a Reform wedding in New York and tramp through history into the battlefields of Europe where an army marches on its treif stomach. This Schmooze reminds us of the challenges and joys of keeping kosher in what is yesterday and even today a world full of treif.

And don’t worry… our tour of treif is completely kosher. Metaphorically speaking that is.