14 Facts About Jewish cuisine

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Jewish cuisine refers to the worldwide cooking traditions of the Jewish people.

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Jewish cuisine is influenced by the economics, agriculture, and culinary traditions of the many countries where Jewish communities have settled and varies widely throughout the entire world.

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The distinctive styles in Jewish cuisine vary by each community across the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi diaspora groupings; there are notable dishes within the culinary traditions of the stand-alone significant Jewish diaspora communities from Ethiopia, Iran, and Yemen.

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Laws of keeping kosher have influenced Jewish cuisine cooking by prescribing what foods are permitted and how food must be prepared.

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Each Jewish cuisine community has its traditional dishes, often revolving around specialties from their home country.

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Jewish cuisine recommends bread baked from wheat that is not too new, nor too old, nor too fine, further, the meat of the kid, sheep and chicken and the yolks of eggs.

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Jewish cuisine has played a big part in shaping the restaurant scene in the West, in particular in the UK and US.

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8.

Jewish cuisine families purchased challah loaves for their Sabbath meal at one North Side bakery.

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The influenc of modern Israel on contemporary North American Jewish cuisine consciousness has meant thaty the typical foods of the southern and eastern Mediterranean shores are now considered Jewish cuisine.

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Sephardi Jewish cuisine emphasizes salads, stuffed vegetables and vine leaves, olive oil, lentils, fresh and dried fruits, herbs and nuts, and chickpeas.

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Mizrahi Jewish cuisine is based largely on fresh ingredients, as marketing was done in the local souq.

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Cooked, stuffed and baked vegetables are central to the Jewish cuisine, as are various kinds of beans, chickpeas, lentils and burghul .

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Mizrahi Jewish cuisine has many unique dishes that were eaten by Jews in Iraq, Eastern Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran and Yemen.

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Passover celebrates The Exodus from Egypt where it is said the Jewish cuisine people left so quickly, there was no time for their bread to rise.

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