Kosher food. Photo: AJN file

DALIA SABLE

KOSHER consumers will be able to tuck into a whole feast of information when Kosher Australia releases its Food Guide 2010.

Featuring hundreds of new products, the booklet includes an extensive list of locally produced, kosher-certified and mehadrin -– the most stringent level of kosher supervision -– items.

For the first time, and in an attempt to make keeping kosher easier, the Melbourne-based kashrut authority has also created sections on setting up a kosher kitchen, separating challah when baking the loaves and how to make crockery kosher, including tips on tovelling (kashering) dishes in a specific mikvah.

The guide also includes advice on how to adequately check fruit, vegetables and eggs for blemishes or deficiencies that may render them treif.

A list of blessings appropriate for each food type and an updated travellers’ guide for the rest of Australia and for South-East Asia also features in the new booklet.
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Daneli's Deli on Carlisle Street. Photo: Peter Haskin

DALIA SABLE

AS one of Melbourne’s kosher cafes closes, another opens.Brothers Daniel and Eli Grosberg have opened Daneli’s Deli on Carlisle Street, next door to Glick’s Bakery.

Specialising in American deli-style food, the cafe is fleishig, open six days a week, and on Saturday night from an hour after Shabbat ends.”We lived in New York for a few years and ate at many of the delis there, and we thought it was something that Melbourne really needed,” Eli Grosberg told The AJN. “We enjoyed it so much we wanted to bring it here.”

The menu at Daneli’s includes southern chicken wraps, buffalo wings and pastrami egg rolls, salads and soups.

More substantial meals are also on offer, such as burgers and hot dogs “from the grill”, as are deli sandwiches including a kosher version of the famous Reuben. The cafe is under the certification of Kosher Australia.

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Chantal Abitbol

SQUEEZED by rising costs of imported kosher goods and a low Australian dollar, kosher retailers are being forced to cut back on shipments and hike prices on goods hitting shop shelves.

Ron Saltoon, director of kosher importer R Solomon & Company, which distributes to kosher outlets in Sydney and Melbourne, told The AJN that the price of kosher goods from Israel and the United States -– including matzah, grape juice and chocolate -– has spiked 10 to 12 per cent in the past six months because of rising raw material costs.

Coupled with a weakened Australian dollar trading nearly 30 per cent lower than last year, Saltoon said he has been forced to slash imports by 30 per cent. Meanwhile, consumers are getting hit with a heftier price tag. Read the full story

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