Comments on: Aren’t we already eating buffalo over here?

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:42:50 +0000

Yes, it is. I ate yak at the OU Kosher Experience dinner in LA this summer. It was good. But unless your son’s a shochet he still won’t be able to eat it. Unless his question’s really about the milk. Yes, yak milk is perfectly kosher.

By: bella abadi

bella abadi — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:51:06 +0000

my son is in Tibet, and he is asking if the Yak is a Kosher animal,so he can eat it
thank you,
Bella

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:06:59 +0000

I imagine that the mozzarella di bufala market would open up in Israel long before anything came here. One more potential reason why it would be fun to make aliyyah. Ah well.

By: Ba'alat Teshuva

Ba'alat Teshuva — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:06:17 +0000

Oops. I got them mixed up. Thanks for correcting me.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:11:15 +0000

I am just trying to imagine what hechshered fior di latte from Israel would cost here in the states. The shipping costs will be tremendous, as it is meant to be eaten within a few days, or even hours, of production, and needs to be shipped in a climate-controlled environment. That said, I would pay ANY PRICE for kosher mozzarella di bufala, having tasted the real stuff.

Oh, and to Ba’alat Teshuva, mozzarella is made from the milk of the water buffalo, not bison (two different species). Actually that’s what this post is about, that in the states we have Bison and in Europe/Mediterranean they have Bubalus (or water buffalo).

By: Ba'alat Teshuva

Ba'alat Teshuva — Thu, 11 May 2006 22:37:25 +0000

Apparently authentic mozzarella is made from Bison milk, so apparently now Israeli Jews can have real kosher mozzarella. That’s a good thing, right? :-)

By: ralphie

ralphie — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:34:19 +0000

American Buffalo? Kosher? I should go bison.

By: jabbett

jabbett — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:24:45 +0000

Despite not needing the heksher, Milhouse, it should still be good news for Israel’s Italian Jews because it means a larger, more secure kosher buffalo industry for everyone.

And maybe an enterprising paisan will start exporting Israeli fior di latte!

By: junger

junger — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:58:16 +0000

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing for Fred Flintstone.

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:20:29 +0000

Well, it’s not “good news” for the Italian Jews — they’ve been eating it for centuries, and have no need for R Amar’s hechsher. Nor are they set to profit from this decision, since any demand in Israel for buffalo products will be filled by locally raised animals. So this news makes no difference to them.