Sunday, 9 April 2017

קִטְנִיּוֹת - The Small Things of God


Kitniyot (small things) are foodstuffs similar to those banned at Pesach (Passsover). Ashkenazim refrain from eating things like rice and beans for this reason. In the 1930s Maxwell House hired a rabbi to research coffee, resulting in a determination that the coffee bean is more like a berry than a bean, thus making it kosher for Passover. However, we do not know whether this applies to Nescafe instant coffee (that to the colour-blind looks like flour).

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