What food can you take to hosts who are Jewish or a dinner party where one of the guests eats kosher?
If all else fails, ask.
A year or two ago I had to attend a festive Jewish occasion and knew the hosts were strictly kosher. My solution was to order wine from a shop supplying kosher wine. But what if they don't drink, are driving, and say they already have wine?
Passover
Pesach, or Passover, around Easter time, adds another layer of opportunities coupled with restrictions, because of the ban on leavened food, no bread, only matzah, and this affects cakes and biscuits. Your supermarket may have stocks of wines and food labelled kosher for passover.
Another place to look is a mini supermarket or gift shop which specialises in Jewish or kosher products. The assistant can probably help you to find something suitable in their shop or direct you to another nearby shop.
You can often buy kosher chocolates or cake from a supermarket or an Israeli restaurant or kosher salt beef bar. Just ask. Or look online.
Green & Blacks
I recently was at a lunch party and was surprised to see that one of the guests who kept strictly kosher at their home had brought Green & Black's chocolates which had no kosher symbol or Hebrew or English wording saying that the product was kosher.
Gelatine
I was told that the main concern for a Jewish guest would be whether the chocolates contained gelatine. What could contain gelatine? Jelly babies? Turkish Delight? (That is the brand name now used in the UK for the Greek and Turkish and other countries' confection of that style).
American Chocolates
My informant additonally told me, "Almost all chocolates imported from the USA, US brands, are kosher. Look for the symbol or two letters OU, O for Orthodox.
Now you know what to ask about.
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