Is There A Doctor In The House? Dr. Praeger Is On Call, During The Year And At Passover
Dr. Peter Praeger of Dr. Praeger’s, the famous fish company, is a real person and a real doctor, a cardiologist. In a strange but true story, that’s how he became involved with the firm.
Gold’s Horseradish
The story of Gold’s begins in 1932 when my grandparents started grinding horseradish in the kitchen of their apartment in Brooklyn. Our OU affiliation came shortly afterwards when we expanded to a small factory. Today, Gold’s is manufactured with the same recipe that was used at the start: horseradish, vinegar and salt.
Tnuva Dairy Giant
No one could ever call Tnuva’s executives “impulsive.” During the past several decades this former dairy cooperative has methodically built itself into a sophisticated multi-level corporation that is not only Israel’s Number One food company (with over $1.5 billion in annual sales), but is also the world’s largest producer of kosher food products. Tnuva has […]
How Our Seafood Producers Navigate the Waters of Kosher for Passover Supervision
For the Jewish people, Passover is not just another holiday. Our reliving of the Exodus from Egypt is also a time when families make time to be together and indulge in our favorite national pastime… eating. Besides matzah, wine and chicken soup, few foods conjure up traditional feelings more than the fish products our families […]
The Modern Passover Marketing Story
Rabbis travel half way around the globe for special production runs that may last no more than a day, although preparation may take as much as a week. Major national brands remove ingredients from their products, often replacing them with such popular Passover ingredients as apple cider and potato starch, all in deference to the […]
Ocean Beauty: Some Beautiful Fish
Ocean Beauty Seafoods was founded in the early 1900’s and is one the largest seafood companies in the United States. Headquartered in Seattle, Ocean Beauty is the parent company for the largest smokehouse group in North America. There are four smokehouses, with locations in Boston, the Seattle area, and Los Angeles. Key brands produced and […]
Behind the Chametz-Free Certification
For industrial products, the familiar OU-P (kosher for Passover) can sometimes be replaced by a “chametz-free” certification. What does this mean? To find out, studying some terminology will be in order. CHAMETZ: Fermented grains (wheat, oats, barley, rye and spelt), all proscribed–that is, forbidden—on Passover; KITNIYOT: Legume products, also not for Passover use, but of […]
A Chemical Reaction At Passover
TO A LARGE EXTENT, the chemical industry is free from Passover issues because so many food chemicals are exclusively mineral-based, as are the processing aids. However, it would be inaccurate to say that the regulations of Passover do not impact at all. We will focus on two critical areas: flocculants and alcohols. A flocculant is […]
Meeting The Challenge Of Certifying Flavors For Passover
FLAVORS—THE MYSTERIOUS ingredients added to almost all processed foods that completes the gastronomic experience create unique challenges for Passover certification. Due to the nature of flavor chemicals and the complexity of their manufacture, every chemical in flavors requires individual investigation to determine its Passover status. No master list is available for the raw materials that […]
The Kosher For Passover Snack: A Rarity No More
Passover is a holiday steeped in great tradition. Our ancestors, living in a world without manufacturing processes, prepared all the food used for Passover from scratch, involving great time and painstaking effort. Producing any more than the bare minimum that was needed for the holiday was out of the question. “You will survive without snacks […]
