Classic Artichoke Dish a staple of Jewish cooking in Rome is now deemed Non Kosher

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The concern is apparently that there’s no way to ensure there are no insects or worms in a whole artichoke. But Italian rabbis aren’t going along with the ruling.

More for me.

The Milan rabbi did. I’ve never found a worm in an artichoke. MOA?

I assume that figs are already treif?

Does, like, the Jewish Pope make a decree, or something?

No guarantee a head of lettuce or cabbage was bug or worm free.

Same with apples!

Chickpeas, lots of little bugs…no Hummus?

That declaration is crazy.

Figs are kosher.

Seems pretty foolish to me as well.

"We’ve been eating this dish prepared this way for 600 years,” said Umberto Pavoncello, manager at Nonna Betta, a kosher restaurant in the heart of Rome’s Jewish Ghetto.

“I’m a little worried about the souls of all the people that have been eating them over the centuries, I hope nothing bad happens to them,” he joked.

They shouldn’t be under these standards. They crawl with bugs and wasps. And you can’t rinse the innards off