On paper, Sporkful host Dan Pashman and his wife Janie are pretty similar -- they're both white and Jewish, both raised in the New York area. It should be an easy fit, right? And in many ways it is. But not so much when it comes to food.
Especially because Janie grew up in a kosher home -- Dan didn't.
Dan's love of cheeseburgers is well documented, but cheeseburgers aren't kosher because kosher law forbids mixing meat and dairy. (It goes back to a line in the Old Testament about not cooking a kid -- a baby goat -- in its mother's milk.) Of course it also means no pork, no shellfish.
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