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Page 32 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN — KASHER LIVING July-August 2012 Kosher Affairs BY Roberta Scher Once again we are enjoying—or shall I say enduring—the long, hot summer in Atlanta. Along with the temperature, what’s hot? FUEGOMUNDO. It’s hot, hot, hot in Atlanta—not just because of the summer heat but because of sizzling FuegoMundo, Atlanta’s kosher South American wood-fire grill. This informal, upscale bistro-style restaurant offers a menu appealing to meat eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. Lunch is fast and casual, while dinner is full-service. FuegoMundo is a clean, well-run food establishment, with good service, fair prices, and quality food that just happens to be kosher. Co-owners Masha Hleap- Hershkovitz and Udi Hershkovitz recently changed the menu a bit. At a recent lunch, I ordered one of the new items, the tilapia burger. Delicious! It reminds me of one of my favorite fish sandwiches, the grouper Reuben that I always enjoy on family trips to Destin. (Of course, the cheese is omitted, since FuegoMundo is a meat restaurant.) I enjoy both the food and ambience of this restaurant. If you haven’t yet experienced it, try it. And, more good news—FuegoMundo also offers catering. Visit fuegomundo.com. Udi and Masha Hershkovitz ALI’S COOKIES (Shipacookie.com) has opened a second location in Dunwoody, under the supervision of the AKC. It is in the Perimeter Place Shopping Center, near the Dunwoody Target. All cookies and cookie cakes are kosher dairy or kosher, dairy equipment. PITA PALACE (thepitapalace.com) deserves kudos. This popular, small, informal eatery, has achieved a perfect score—a sanitation inspection rating of 100 from the DeKalb County Health Department. The restaurant specializes in Mediterranean/Middle Eastern foods, such as falafel, shwarma, and Israeli-style salads. Most customers order takeout, but there are a few tables for eating in. GRILLER’S PRIDE (Grillerspride.com) is now carrying Teva beef, which is glatt kosher and certified 100% natural. The beef is from cattle that have not been treated with antibiotics, steroids, or hormones and are raised on a 100% vegetarian diet. TDSA GARDEN. On behalf of the Torah Day School Community Garden, a big thank-you to the Whole Foods Kids Foundation for supporting the school’s edible, organic garden with a $2,000 grant. This will help TDSA continue its efforts to provide garden education for its students and further expand the program into the community. If you are in the Toco Hill area, do drive by and take a look. With this infusion of new funds, we hope to grow. (Yes, I am involved in this effort and, along with our garden educator, Robin Saul, welcome your financial or volunteer support! Contact tdsagarden@gmail.com.) SPEAKING OF WHOLE FOODS, the Briarcliff store continues to expand its kosher-friendly selection. The store wants to serve the kosher community and better understand what customers need. If you are in the store, do share your thoughts. This store has a large selection of kosher groceries, an in-house mashgiach (Elisheva Robbins), kosher chicken, and kosher fish by special order. Visit wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/briarcliff. PRODUCT NEWS SHAKE-UP IN KOSHER PARVE CHOCOLATE CHIPS. Trader Joe’s chocolate chips have dominated the kosher food news. After years as the kosher consumer’s “go to” parve chocolate chips, they are no longer certified parve. No one knew, including Trader Joe’s, how popular they were, until the change to a dairy certification. The company, which is usually very consumer responsive, has been bombarded with complaints. If fact, two online petitions, signed by thousands, were started, requesting TJ’s to address this situation. To read The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of this story, google “Trader Joe’s chocolate chips WSJ.” SALLY WILLIAMS HONEY NOUGAT. I am delighted to share news of this delicious product and its availability in Atlanta. I recently tasted Sally Williams Nougat, and my sweet tooth was delighted. So, what is this confection? The story begins in the souks of Marrakesh, where Sally Williams, a South African chef, sampled flavored nougat. This started Sally on a search through Morocco, Tunisia, France, and Italy to master the recipe for the perfect nougat. The results: a luxury, handcrafted confection, made with no preservatives or colorants, and kosher certified by the OU. Most flavors are parve, and the best news is that it is available locally from thechosenknish.com. To learn more about the product, visit sallywilliamsfinefoods.com. SPEAKING OF KOSHER PRODUCTS, did you know that Original Oreo Sandwich Cookies and Oreo Double Stuf Sandwich cookies do not contain dairy ingredients, though they are manufactured on dairy equipment? Therefore, Oreo Original and Double Stuf Sandwich Cookies may be consumed after meat and poultry, but not with them. BACK IN THE DAY. A Savannah culinary landmark has published The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl and Griffith Day (Artisan Books). I discovered this book while watching “The Martha Stewart Show,” and I knew that I had to have it. It is written by the owners of Savannah’s Back in the Day Bakery, an establishment now in its 10th year. Since the bakery itself is not kosher, I especially wanted the cookbook, which is full of many Southern desserts and breads that I knew I could make with kosher ingredients. In the book, bakery owners Cheryl and Griff Day share many of their customers’ favorites. I think this quote from the publisher says it all: “Celebrating family traditions, scratch See KOSHER AFFAIRS, page 34
July-August 2012 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN — KASHER LIVING Page 33 Kosher Korner BY Rabbi Reuven Stein The Atlanta Kashruth Commission thanks all who attended Kosher Day 2012, making it a wonderful success Baruch Hashem. It was a lot of fun watching the game with friends and enjoying the delicious food from Goodfriend’s Grill, served on the Club Patio, which offers a great view of the ball field. The generous sponsors were The Marcus Foundation, Publix Super Markets Charities, and Toco Instant Printing. Raffle winners were Ms. Karen Langley, the Roth family, and the Berkowitz family. This event helped raise funds for AKC programs. KOSHER NEWS Goodfriend’s Grill at the Marcus Hillel Center’s summer hours, through August 21, are Monday-Thursday, 5:00-8:00 p.m.; closed Fridays. Call 404-963-2548 ext. 113. Advertising is available for the upcoming AKC Kosher Guide. For details, call the office, at 404-634- 4063. The AKC has a few mashgiach opportunities available. Call Rabbi Stein for details, at 404-634-4063. Ali’s Cookies has opened a second location, under AKC supervision, in the Perimeter Place shopping center, near the Dunwoody Target, 4511 Olde Perimeter Way, Suite 300, Atlanta 30346. Call 770-350-ALIS (2547). All cookies and cookie cakes are kosher dairy or kosher, dairy equipment. Hour are Sunday, 12:00 noon-4:00 p.m.; Monday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; and Friday, 10:00 a.m.–before Shabbos. Schakolad, a candy store in Dunwoody, has changed its name to CSD Enterprises DiAmno. It sells both kosher and non-kosher products. Double-check each product before making a purchase. Non-approved products include dipped strawberries, chocolate covered bacon, and salted caramels. KOSHER ALERTS Kroger Private Selection “Sorbetto” Desserts were, in the past, produced by OU plants and bore the OU symbol. Recently, production was moved to a non-OU plant (plant #3948). Consumers who have any Sorbetto OU product should check the plant code that is after the “Sell By” date on the bottom of the container. If the code is 3948, the OU is unauthorized. AKC policy is to accept most frozen raw vegetables without a hechsher, if they have no infestation issues (see the AKC Kosher Guide for more information) and have no seasoning or pasta. This is true only of raw vegetables. The AKC does not recommend frozen winter squash that is cooked. Not all Entenmann’s products are OU certified. Consumers should check each product for the OU-D symbol. Trader Joe’s chocolate chips are no longer certified pareve. They are certified dairy when bearing the OK-D. Older packages are pareve and are labeled accordingly. There is a petition asking Trader Joe’s to return to making the pareve chips at http://www.change.org/petitions/trader-joe-s-keep-the-chocolate-chipspareve#. Whole Foods carries pareve chocolate chips. Coke is introducing low-calorie versions of Fanta and Sprite as “Fanta Select” and “Sprite Select.” Both are kosher and pareve. Original Oreo Sandwich Cookies and Oreo Double Stuf Sandwich Cookies do not contain dairy ingredients, though they are manufactured on dairy equipment. Therefore, they may be consumed after meat and poultry, but not with them. OU-certified Christie Triscuit Low Sodium Roasted Garlic, Christie Brown, a Division of Kraft Canada, is missing the dairy designation. Uncle Ben’s Whole Grain and Wild Rice Mushroom Recipe mistakenly bears an OU symbol. It contains a spice packet that is not certified by the OU. Joy Cone brand Ice Cream Cones Fun Pack mistakenly bears the Star-K pareve symbol on the outside box. The Star-D Dairy symbol pertaining to the chocolate-coated cones was mistakenly left off the box. Rabbi Reuven Stein is director of supervision for the Atlanta Kashruth Commission, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting kashruth through education, research, and supervision.
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