Good News From Israel
While Ariel Sharon’s disengagement rages on, there’s some good news to report from the Jerusalem Post: a fish (Barbus grypus) that the Talmud suggests tastes like pork has been identified in Iran, and Israeli scientists are figuring out how to raise it in Israel.
The Babylonian Talmud, which contains numerous discussions about the fish, specifically notes that some of its organs taste like pork (although how the sages were able to make the comparison is not clear).
The great commentator Rashi wrote that it was the brain of the fish that tasted like pig meat, and that it served as a kosher option for people who yearned to eat the forbidden meat.
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US soldiers have caught the fish in Iraq as well.
Wonder if it really tastes like pork.
Anyway, when the restaurant I work for makes deep fried veal ribs, all the chinese guys call it pork. I don’t care what pork really tastes like as long as I get to have some of those ribs because I know those are pretty darn good!
oh by the way here is a recipe for kosher ham made from goose:
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/uncook_goose.html
Now where can i get kosher goose???
i am also looking for a kosher goose in miami, florida. if anybody knows where i can get one, please email me with the information thank you
Did you ever find your Kosher Goose? I have been looking myself for a while but to no avail. Any help would be appreicated!
in response to the fish which tastes like pork….
you know, it is better not to even have the apperance of evil, in tempting ourselfs with something that torah says we are not suppost to eat. i believe that trying to satify the desire to eat something which tastes like a forbidden meat, incites the yetzir ha ra. it arouses our animalistic instincts.
We’re supposed to have a desire to eat things that are forbidden to us, and then actively restrain ourselves from partaking. There would be no special challenge to Torah if we had a natural revulsion to all things that are prohibited.
Thankfully, God, in His infinite good, provides delicious things for us to eat — like this fish — through which we can channel our animal desires into true avodas Hashem. In fact, we’d do Him a disservice by refraining from it, essentially saying we’re too high and mighty to eat even what He’s allowed.
“You shall not add to it, nor subtract from it.”
Shellfish craving, I can understand. Who the heck has a craving for pork? Sure, meats all have their distinctive taste, but all the same, meats are generally good substitutes for each other!