ella/TO
Sous Chef
I am grinning as I read all the above......"from this comes such a discussion"?......LOL.....it really was a simple request....but hey, it's been interesting reading all this....
Yes, I accidentally left out the word "generally". I meant to say Jewish foods are generally kosher. They certainly do not have to be though.Providing the dietary laws were upheld. You can make meat borscht and add some sour cream into it. Borsch could be consider jewish, but sour cream sure makes it unkosher.
I love cream cheese but I would skip the lox and vegtables.I am a weird Jew Ella. I can't stand cream cheese so I often have bagles with lox and nothing else Although if it is lox spread and it is well mixed then I will eat that.
However the way I would really like it is with whitefish salad, belly lox (the salty kind), Jarlsberg cheese, and then topped with some veggies like lettuce, tomato, red onion, etc.
Some might consider falafel Jewish food, but personally I think it is a stretch. Falafel originated in Egypt. It is a Middle Eastern food for sure, but not specific to Israel. Many different cultures other than jews eat Falafel every day. The word Falafel is not even Hebrew, it is Arabic.
Completely the opposite. All of the foods listed above were common in Russia/Ukraine long before Jews ever arived there.
Larry, so funny!!!.....I knew/know folks who have dishes for dairy, dishes for meats, Passover dishes and yes, you guessed it, Chinese dishes....sometimes paper plates.....ROFL
Start making paela (or whatever way it's spelled)