What sorts of food are “kosher”?
It’s easier to explain what sorts of food are not kosher. The basics of the Jewish dietary laws are not eating pork, shellfish or other unkosher animals, and not mixing dairy and meat. This also applies to food products containing such ingredients. Meat of any animal which does not both chew its cud and have a split hoof, such as rabbit or hare, pig, horse, dog or cat. Allowed is beef, weal, venison, mutton, lamb. The animal from which this meat is taken must have been slaughtered in accordance with prescribed Jewish ritual. All liver must be broiled before use in recipes, because of a prohibition against ingesting blood. Fish: fish must have both fins and scales that are detachable from the skin. All fish which have them are allowed. Not allowed are all shellfish (shrimp, lobster, clams, oysters, scallops, etc.) and crustaceans (crabs, crayfish/crawfish, etc.), scavengers/”Bottom-feeder s” (such as catfish, monkfish), unless they have fins and scales, sturgeon (and, by extension, stur
