Exotic Kosher Feast Sickens Some at Manhattan Synagogue

[KamaAina]

http://forward.com/news/308662/extreme-kosher-feast-sickens-some-at-prominent-manhattan-synagogue/

They came to the synagogue with empty bellies — and eclectic taste buds.

For the hungry and adventurous, the program announced. On the menu: faux-butter poached brains with garbanzo beans; veal intestines, duck liver and kidneys, and goat testicles; slow-cooked ox tail in sherry wine mousseline; Mexican chipotle chocolate-covered locusts.

All of this is perfectly kosher. The Orthodox rabbi said as much as he expounded upon the Talmudic sources of each dish in the May 5 “Halakhic Dinner” at Congregation Shearith Israel, also known as the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side ....

“Chills, cramps, and pain,” wrote one attendee on Facebook. Others described diarrhea and intense flu-like symptoms that lasted several days. Baruch Moser, another dinner-goer, wrote last week: “Got sick on Wednesday and getting progressively worse. Today is day number 7. Been to the (doctor) and waiting on lab results.”

Oy gevalt! And it will take some heavy-duty brain bleach to erase the image of a rabbi blessing goat testicles.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Obviously something wasn't totally kosher.

[Trajan]

2. Er. ... what?

faux-butter poached brains ?

veal intestines ?

duck liver and kidneys ?

Goat testicles ?

Mexican chipotle chocolate-covered locusts ?

THIS is kosher cuisine ?

I had no idea ... is eating brains a good idea? ... I think not ... let alone the testes, intestines and organs ...

YUCK !

[KamaAina]

3. Probably not.

Myelin, the substance that coats nerves, is almost pure cholesterol.

[hifiguy]

5. That graphic is a DU classic.

Used it myself in food threads a few times.

Seriously though, eating intestines is not a good idea unless they are sterilized sausage casings and I don't give a hoot what Chris Cosentino or any other "offal is good!" chef says.

[jmowreader]

4. Riddle me this, Rabbi...

"Kosher" meat is anything from the tip of the nose to the back of the ribcage. How then can kidneys, intestines, testicles and tails - all of which come from parts of animals aft of the ribcage, be considered kosher?

[hifiguy]

6. He was reading from right to left?

[Wolf Frankula]

7. Where were the Locusts?

Wolf