Origins
As according to Jonathan Abbett, creator of the Kosher Blog

In the summer of 2003, I went cold-turkey, whole-hog kosher, which meant no more eating vegetarian at treyfe restaurants, as I had been doing for about seven years, in my pre-Orthodox days. The particular milestone was my marriage to a lovely and talented woman who had been progressing, like me, toward a more observant lifestyle, so I immediately found myself with a wedding-gift-equipped kosher kitchen (and a wife who couldn’t cook, save her excellent apple pies). Suffice it to say, I was cooking a lot more.

Luckily, I had a penchant for the culinary passed to me from my mother, live-in grandmother, and a healthy dose of PBS cooking shows. (It probably also helped that my father made occasional appearances in the kitchen — potato latkes were always his department — and would often cook for his assorted fraternal organizations.) As I sought to recapture the not-so-kosher tastes of my past, I experimented with new recipes and products, and began encountering more and more obscure hekshers the further I looked for exotic goods. Keeping it all straight grew challenging, so, in December 2003, I started the Kosher Blog, a website where I could catalog my experiences and occasional frustrations, and reach out to other kosher “foodies” who were also “trying to find the finer side of everyday kosher living.”

Purpose
That spirit continues through the present day. The Kosher Blog has become a major compendium of recipes, product and restaurant reviews, industry gossip, and miscellaneous information about real kosher-living issues that simply can’t be found elsewhere on the Internet. Through blog-readers’ comments, every post has grown into a living, oral history of the topic at hand, creating an incredibly valuable, grass-roots resource for the kosher community.

The Kosher Blog also inadvertantly serves as a testament that kosher cuisine goes far beyond stereotypically “Jewish” foods: oversalted beef, pickled fish, delicatessen, and sweet wines. We care about top-quality meats, wines, and restaurants just like everybody else — and if kosher manufacturers don’t want to make gutsy, strong-bodied cheeses, well, we’ll do it ourselves!

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