Tag Archive | kosher meat
September 5, 2012  

A Funny Thing about Blog Stats

I don’t really get bogged down about checking my blog stats.

I really could care less about how many eyeballs come to visit my blog or which country they reside.

Okay.

I lie.

Blog stats keep me from going to bed at night and get me up and going every morning.

Lately, the tag words that lead people to my blog the most are “kosher” and “kosher meat”

In fact, in the last 30 days, searches like “kosher,” “kosher beef,” and “kosher meat cuts” led 227 people to my blog.

It’s all very flattering, folks, but I’m no expert here.

Although I follow kosher dietary laws to some extent – I have a kosher home and stick to a vegetarian diet at non-kosher restaurants – I’m no guru on kosher certification or laws of kashrut. Leave that to the experts like Kosher Maven,  Los Angeles Kosher Restaurants and here is a whole list of kosher bloggers I found on Pragmaticattic.

But still, the Kosher hits keep coming.

Additionally, thanks to WordPress’ mapping feature that lets you check out where in the world the hits are coming from, many of my hits are coming from countries where I bet hardly anyone keeps kosher.

Like:

The United Arab Emirates

Pakistan

Indonesia

Syria

So, what do I think about this? Maybe – just maybe, people are reaching across the blogosphere to reach across the Muslim/Jewish divide. Maybe, as we approach 9/11,  blogging can dispel the myth we build up about each other.  Maybe, there are people in Muslim-dominant countries who really  want to find out who and what Jews really are.  Maybe we can find common ground,  at least in a gastronomic way.

What interesting trends have you unearthed in your blogging statistics?

 

March 29, 2012  

Another Good Reason to Keep Kosher – “Slime” Free Meat

Yes, Kosher meat is more expensive.

And, unless you live in an area with a good-sized Jewish population, kosher meat and kosher butchers are hard to come by.

But with this “pink slime” trending in the news, it’s reassuring to know that absolutely NO pink slime is permitted in kosher meat, according to KosherEye,  a blog for  foodies who also keep Kosher.

According to the blog:

Statement from OU Kosher: Kosher ground beef is made out of the kosher pieces of meat, trimmed by hand. No mechanically separated beef or pink slime is used in any OU-certified production.

The other night, I picked up a pound of kosher ground round and a pound of kosher ground lean turkey and treated my family to a slow-cooked meatloaf that I have to say was absolutely delish.

So, if you don’t want pink slime in your beef, or mechanically separated parts in your lunch or dinner, if you want chickens that are fed a grain-only diet and that are not fed any dead chicken parts, if you want a sustainable meat supply that by law must treat and slaughter its animals in the most humane way possible, you don’t have to be Jewish to buy kosher meat.

With that, I hope that there will be kosher burger joints popping up all over the nation. Then again, my cholesterol levels would be sky high if that were the case.