kosher for Pesach brown rice

[davidfcooper]

Those who follow Sephardi kashrut for Pesach may be interested to know that we found kosher for Pesach brown rice for $3/lb at Holon Foods on Kings Highway btw E3rd & E4th Streets in Brooklyn (in store only). It's also where we buy Israeli chocolate spread and date paste.

Comments

[luckycee.livejournal.com]

I am completely unfamiliar with Sephardi food. My family came from Eastern Europe.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

So did ours, but several kinds of foods such as rice and beans that are forbidden on Pesach under Ashkenazi kashrut are permitted under Sephardi kashrut. Since we're vegetarians beans and whole grains are staples of our diet, and so we follow Sephardi kashrut even though we're Ashkenazi. We became familiar with Sephardi cuisine when we lived in Israel.

[luckycee.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting commentary on how arbitrary the kashrut laws are, if they can be so different from one another. One of our non-Jewish in-laws recently asked, if matza is made from flour and water and that's okay, then why is flour itself not okay? I don't know.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

With matzah the flour and water must be baked in under 18 minutes so no leavening can occur. To be on the safe side all flour is discarded and we eat only matzah.