Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food

Timothy D. Lytton (Albany Law School). Kosher (Harvard University Press, 2013).  

"Kosher is one terrific book. It's a wonderfully entertaining account of the squabbles, finger-pointing, and cutthroat competition that turned kosher certification from scandalous corruption to a respectableand highly profitable—business.  Today, if food is labeled kosher, it is kosher, which is more than can be said of most claims on food labels." 
—Marion Nestle, New York University