short takes
Nov. 3rd, 2002 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioWe went to a new (to me) restaurant today, Atria on Rt. 19 (Dormont? Mt. Lebanon?). There's one near where Dani works. I had a very good tuna salad -- grilled? tuna with lettuce, apples, dried cherries, walnuts, and a tasty dressing that I couldn't identify. It's one of their seasonal specials, though, not part of the regular menu. (The regular menu seemed to be short on things I can eat, but I could find something there when this salad goes away. And I've got to remember to find out once and for all if catfish is kosher; I've been told both that it is and that it isn't, and I need to remember to just ask my rabbi.)
Last night we went to Serena's 60th-birthday party. We saw Thaddeus, who I haven't seen since his wedding about a year ago. He's doing well, and is trying to make a business of glasswork. (He makes beads and jewelry and similar small items. He's good, from what I've seen. I wonder how you build a market in that area.)
I have leftover cookies. It was my turn to bake for the kiddush Saturday, and I took some to Serena's party. I wonder what the best way is to dispose of the rest without eating them myself. I've been good so far; it would be a shame for that to stop. :-) (Maybe I'll take them to work.)
It appears to be impossible to buy a matching desk (not computer desk) and hutch from a single supplier. I think I should just give up and mount the bracket-style shelves above a plain desk. Sigh.
Seth and Karen should be happily married by now. Mazel tov!
Last night we went to Serena's 60th-birthday party. We saw Thaddeus, who I haven't seen since his wedding about a year ago. He's doing well, and is trying to make a business of glasswork. (He makes beads and jewelry and similar small items. He's good, from what I've seen. I wonder how you build a market in that area.)
I have leftover cookies. It was my turn to bake for the kiddush Saturday, and I took some to Serena's party. I wonder what the best way is to dispose of the rest without eating them myself. I've been good so far; it would be a shame for that to stop. :-) (Maybe I'll take them to work.)
It appears to be impossible to buy a matching desk (not computer desk) and hutch from a single supplier. I think I should just give up and mount the bracket-style shelves above a plain desk. Sigh.
Seth and Karen should be happily married by now. Mazel tov!
Re: Catfish
Date: 2002-11-04 02:32 pm (UTC)Well, as I said, it seems that most bottom feeders loose their scales (or never develop them), due to evolutionary pressures. However, the torah text doesn't say anything about scavenging as far as fish go; it just says fins and scales.
Vultures aren't kosher, either
True, but we don't eat them 'cause they're on the "don't eat" list in the Torah. Being scavengers seems to be related to the list... but storks (who aren't scavengers) are also on it.
Theoretically, if we were to discover fish living in the seas of Europa, that had fins and scales (due to convergent evolution plus, of course, the mutations of Slaver food yeast) they would be kosher. Even if they were scavangers of other fish there. Or if someone found and then decided to domesticate a species of pig that has cloven hooves and "chews cud", it'd be kosher, even though it was pig.