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I've been sending my husband's old fraternity brother, Sam, Kosher.com coupons ever since I discovered them, but I've never cooked kosher myself until he came to live with us while he was doing some consulting job for the company my husband worked for. I had presumed that cooking kosher was a deeply religious thing and that it had to be difficult and mysterious. So it was little shock that when my husband told me that Samuel was coming over and staying for a month with his lovely wife, Debbie, I panicked. What would I make for them, I wondered.
As far as I knew, there was nothing kosher in the kitchen, and even if there was, what if I somehow inadvertently made it un-kosher while I was cooking? Would I offend them and make them sin? Highly amused by my concerns, my husband simply told me that he'd ask Sam and Debbie to explain everything to me while they were over. They were due to arrive a little after lunch, so that there would be time for Debbie and myself to make a little dinner.
Almost assured, I went and gathered a bunch of Kosher.com coupons from my online coupon code collection, went online to look for recipes for dishes that our guests might like (and that I could pull of easily). I ordered everything from the kosher website, and waited anxiously for the goods to arrive.
The ingredients arrived just in time and perfectly fresh, and I breathed a sigh of relief. In a couple of days, Sam and Debbie were in the parlor, and Debbie was explaining what it meant to cook kosher food.
Debbie first told me what kosher was not. It wasn't food that was looked over and approved by a rabbi, or something that had been blessed by a rabbi either. Kosher was more about the practice of Kashrut, or the Jewish dietary laws. Kosher describes food that is prepared in accordance with this law. Similarly, there is no such thing as "kosher cooking" or a "kosher style" of cooking, because even foreign foods such as Chinese or Mediterranean, can be made into kosher dishes as long as the components of the dish were prepared in accordance to the law.
There was a whole list of foods that weren't allowed to be eaten, which included shellfish and lobster. Mammals that didn't chew their cud or have cloven hoofs were similarly forbidden. Even then, the meat and fish had to be prepared for consumption in an exacting manner, by someone who had studied the law, so that it was considered good enough to eat.
Debbie went on to tell me that while it isn't really difficult to keep kosher at all, it was even easier with the Kosher.com promo codes I'd been sending her and Sam. It sure beat the trek to groceries several miles from their picturesque suburban home, and the savings couldn't be beat, either.
Assured that I wouldn't foul things up, I spent a good amount of their visit cooking kosher food with Debbie, and learning many of the traditions of a Jewish kitchen.
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