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I am doing a college course and I have to do an essay on cultural nutritional dietry needs and I chose the Jewish community and am finding it hard to find what healthy diets that you have and what you drink I have to do a three day menu and would appreciate some suggestions please or pointers in the right direction
Jewish food laws - kashrut - is very large and important area of Jewish practice. So much so, that to become a Rabbi, you are tested on kashrut.
It would be impossible to fit the entire body of law into this small space, but I'll give you a taste:
Judaism defines certain foods as being kosher and so can be eaten. Animals that chew the cud and have split hooves, fish that have fins and scales, certain fowl eg chicken and all vegetables are kosher if they have been prepared properly.
Kosher foods can become not kosher if they become infused with the taste of the non-kosher food. This mixture mainly comes about via the medium of heat, but can also occur through soaking. Vessels will also become non kosher if they are infused with the taste of non-kosher food.
If kosher meat and kosher milk are cooked together, the mixture becomes non kosher. Once again, infusion of meat taste into milk or vice versa, makes the whole mixture non kosher. The Rabbis have made safeguards against eating meat and milk together, which is why we have separate cutlery and crockery for meat and milk, and why we wait between eating meat and milk.
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