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is it a quintessentially Brooklyn story
about a quintessentially Brooklyn combo
kosher pizza and while those two words
may not go together in most places they
do here in Midwood Brooklyn just home to
one of the country's biggest Orthodox
Jewish communities now Peter lubbers
nationwide know this quiet central
Brooklyn neighborhood thanks to the fara
it's a legitimately great pizza joint
but it's not kosher
so mid woods devout Jews and Gentiles in
the know go one block west to pg5 a
four-decade neighborhood fixer whose
kosher pies go slice for slaves with the
best in the city
kosher or not today we're meeting with
Hani Applebaum the Orthodox Jewish
Brooklynite behind kosher food block
busy in Brooklyn to grab a slice and get
the lowdown on the crucial importance of
Brooklyn's kosher pita tradition tonight
on Hannah masala I'm mostly behind her
you know whatever we include people on
food and different types of food have
different blessing this is a bread but
the dough is made you know the flour and
water just consider like a bread so
first we wash our hands and then I said
less is God that please forth bread from
the earth
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I'm Orthodox which means that I keep the
laws of the Torah the culture we live a
very traditional to its life you know
nobody wants to feel held back by their
traditions and whether custom so having
cause repeat the lessons in Greece that
part of American culture kosher food is
not necessarily Jewish and Jewish food
is not necessarily kosher for when you
go to Coral Sea to be a dairy restaurant
or a meat restaurant you can't have them
both in a theme I think by the way
that's a lot of what these people love
it at the time is this mean it's awesome
a lot of the photos my superiors weak
tomatoes program and this sounds like a
saint it's a little bit but also
savoring which I really like I go pretty
like this yeah
oh man and like you can see the mark of
like a good grandma's life is when you
can see like little pools of grease
pulling up yeah and there's nothing in
kosher against Greece right we have much
grease as we want it's all about the
small that's right I can get behind a
dietary practice it's all about Greek
this cup into it
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this is a little bit of a pizza time
specialty and they don't mac and cheese
on top of it so I don't this happened
because there's so many young teenagers
coming in from yeshiva and they're just
so hungry I'm going to go for a bite you
know I feel like now that Brooklyn's too
hot
oh please like being able to say that
there is a recent closure basically in
Brooklyn you know makes kind of part of
the story
I feel no like need to qualify this
though it's good for kosher you know
like it's giddy em there's it's not a
qualifier it's just good Pete oh I feel
like it's my mission Cano to like show
the world people that don't understand
course or no reckless or that it's the
same food food Pizza if it's a Chinese
it's you know it's ice cream it's all
the same foods using culture ingredients
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