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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food

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By (author): Roger Horowitz

Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manischewitz wine became the first kosher product to win over non-Jewish consumers (principally African Americans); the techniques used by Orthodox rabbinical organizations to embed kosher requirements into food manufacturing; and the difficulties encountered by kosher meat and other kosher foods that fell outside the American culinary consensus.

Kosher USA is filled with big personalities, rare archival finds, and surprising influences: the Atlanta rabbi Tobias Geffen, who made Coke kosher; the lay chemist and kosher-certification pioneer Abraham Goldstein; the kosher-meat magnate Harry Kassel; and the animal-rights advocate Temple Grandin, a strong supporter of shechita, or Jewish slaughtering practice. By exploring the complex encounter between ancient religious principles and modern industrial methods, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the story of Judaism's interaction with non-Jewish cultures and the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2018
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780231158336

About Roger Horowitz

Roger Horowitz is a food historian and director of the Center for the History of Business Technology and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author of Negro and White Unite and Fight: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking 19301990 (1997) and Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste Technology Transformation (2005).

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