Organic Families

It’s becoming easier to find kosher food, even fresh kosher meat, in Columbus stores. The food processing industry cites the growth in kosher (and halal) foods as one of its major trends, along with organic, because of kosher’s association with cleanliness and purity standards. Star-K, a kosher supervising body, claims that demand for kosher foods [...]

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Buoyed by a surging consumer interest in healthy, clean food, the number of packaged kosher products is booming. From honey to apple juice to chocolate, Northern California producers are contributing to this national phenomenon. According to kosher food industry maven Menachem Lubinsky of Integrated Marketing Communications, the number of packaged kosher certified products has jumped [...]

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For those of us who aren’t Jewish, kosher foods, like Matzo-ball soup and gefilte fish, have long been relegated to half-understood punchlines in Woody Allen movies. But that’s all changing, thanks to America’s increasing obsession with “pure” foods, and with a deliberate push by kosher-food companies, the biggest of which, Secaucus, N.J.-based Manischewitz, is launching [...]

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