Observant Jews have expanded their culinary horizons as plant-based “cheeseburgers” have begun to appear on kosher menus, which is permissible since it doesn't break the ban on mixing dairy with meat, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“Could Impossible Food Inc.'s fake pork also get a kosher seal of approval?” poses the report.
Early this year, the Board of OU Kosher, the world's largest kosher certification group, voted against the company's kosher-certification request from Impossible Pork. Its CEO, Rabbi Menachem Genack, noted that just the word “pork” was too much to stomach. He's not alone.
Though she has no problem eating Impossible cheeseburgers, “I have a hard time getting past the idea of eating something that's called 'pork' and is meant to taste like pork,” said Chaine Apfelbaum, a New York-based kosher food blogger and cookbook author. Full Story (Subscription Required)
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