Food guides from our kitchen
Plain explanations of halal and Mediterranean food, what to order, and how to feed a group — written by the team at Halal Basket in San Marcos, Texas.
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Ordering Halal on a Delivery App
The fastest way to find halal food ever invented, and the least verified signal in the whole subject.
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Why Isn’t Every Halal Restaurant Certified?
An empty wall is not a red flag. The certification you are looking for usually lives further up the chain.
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Halal Menu Words, Explained
Most of the words describe format, not cooking. Learn those and the whole board becomes readable.
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Are Energy Drinks Halal?
A compound named after an animal, in a can, with no source printed on it. The suspicion was reasonable.
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Is Lettuce Halal?
The instinct is to smile at this question. The instinct is wrong: it is the whole subject in miniature.
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Buying from a Halal Butcher
The meat is the part that requires going somewhere specific. Knowing what to ask makes the first visit much easier.
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The Halal Cart, and Why American Halal Food Looks Like This
It is not a dish from anywhere in the Mediterranean. It was invented on the streets of New York, and it shaped…
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Is Halal Chicken Different from Regular Chicken?
The bird is the same bird. Almost everything people attribute to halal comes from the supply chain around it.
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Nine Things People Get Wrong About Halal Food
Nine corrections, one of which costs us a selling point. We are making it anyway.
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What “Mashbooh” Means
Doubtful is not a third kind of substance. It is a gap in what you have been told, and gaps can be…