THE KOSHER KITCHEN IS A HIT AT CALTECH
PETER Y. HONG, Los Angeles Times, 8/10/02
http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-kosher10aug10.story
Four years ago, Caltech officials were trying to lure a promising high
school senior who was also being courted by Ivy League schools. Professors
and administrators were all set to impress the prospect with Caltech's
academic resources. But the student's parents raised an unexpected concern
about sending their daughter to the Pasadena school for four years: What
could she eat?
The young woman, who was Jewish, kept a kosher diet, and Caltech had no
kosher meal plan. Not only was there no kosher food on campus, but the
neighborhood has no kosher restaurants or grocery stores. So Caltech, a
school with the means to spend what it takes to solve a problem, took a
bold step: It built a kosher kitchen and hired a full-time chef--all before
that student showed up for classes. The new facility quickly became popular
with other Jewish students and Caltech staff. But it evolved in a
surprising way: Muslims on campus also began to take the kosher meals to
adhere to their own similar religious dietary requirements.
Today, Caltech offers both kosher meals and halal dishes for Muslims…
For most Muslim students, the kosher meals were acceptable, since they did
not contain pork and God's name is invoked in the slaughter of kosher
meats. Because halal rules prohibit the use of alcohol, Weinberger does not
use cooking wine.
"A kosher kitchen generally surpasses any halal requirements," said Mahmoud
Abdel-Baset, religious and social services coordinator for the Islamic
Center of Southern California. While acknowledging some Muslims hold to
more conservative standards, Abdel-Baset said he and other Muslims eat
kosher meats…
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