Halal Food Explained
What halal means in practice, and how it applies to Mediterranean cooking.
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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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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…
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What “Halal-Friendly” Actually Means
The difference between the top rung and the bottom one is very large. The difference in wording is very small.
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Is Halal Meat USDA Inspected?
Federal inspection and halal certification run in the same building on the same day, and answer completely different questions.
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Why the Same Product Can Be Halal in One Country and Not Another
Three contradictory answers online are often all correct — they are describing three different countries.
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The Ingredients a US Label Will Not Explain
A US label gives the name of a substance, not what it was made from. Carmine is the single exception, and it…
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Is Bread Halal?
The FDA defines L-cysteine as a molecule and says nothing about where it came from. That gap is the whole question about…
