Green Energy
Yes, Islamic Food Is Making Inroads In Italy:
FLORENCE, Italy — Italian cuisine is prized worldwide, with bistecca alla Fiorentina — or Florentine steak — a must for meat-loving visitors to this city. The succulent, mouth-watering, porterhouse cut reappeared in restaurants this year, after a nearly five-year hiatus due to mad cow disease.
While it was shelved, butcher shops carrying Muslim halal meat opened their doors to the city. And now, despite being a quintessentially Tuscan dish, some of the Florentine steak served in homes and restaurants here follows Islamic dietary restrictions.
“At least seven restaurants buy Florentine steak from us,” said Palestinian Mustafa Abu-Zahu, as he butchered cuts of beef at his family’s halal Mini Market near Florence’s basilica of San Lorenzo.
“They feel that our meat is fundamentally more flavorful,” he said on a recent afternoon, adding that some believe “it’s better for the health.”
You know, if it is more flavorful, then, I say, "GREAT!"
This, actually, may help Muslims learn about the joys of Free Enterprise. Finally, individual Muslims may have something we in the West would want to buy. I really hope so.
However, I have a feeling this is just the beginning of the entire continent going Halal en toto.
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Green Energy
Italy Is Going Halal
Yes, Islamic Food Is Making Inroads In Italy:
FLORENCE, Italy — Italian cuisine is prized worldwide, with bistecca alla Fiorentina — or Florentine steak — a must for meat-loving visitors to this city. The succulent, mouth-watering, porterhouse cut reappeared in restaurants this year, after a nearly five-year hiatus due to mad cow disease.
While it was shelved, butcher shops carrying Muslim halal meat opened their doors to the city. And now, despite being a quintessentially Tuscan dish, some of the Florentine steak served in homes and restaurants here follows Islamic dietary restrictions.
“At least seven restaurants buy Florentine steak from us,” said Palestinian Mustafa Abu-Zahu, as he butchered cuts of beef at his family’s halal Mini Market near Florence’s basilica of San Lorenzo.
“They feel that our meat is fundamentally more flavorful,” he said on a recent afternoon, adding that some believe “it’s better for the health.”
You know, if it is more flavorful, then, I say, "GREAT!"
This, actually, may help Muslims learn about the joys of Free Enterprise. Finally, individual Muslims may have something we in the West would want to buy. I really hope so.
However, I have a feeling this is just the beginning of the entire continent going Halal en toto.
- Islam's Foothold In Japan
There's an imam in Osaka who's building up Islam's presence on the isle: An Egyptian legal scholar based in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, says he is working to increase understanding between the Japanese people and the more than 100,000 Muslims...
- British Schools Ban Pork To Avoid Offending Muslim Students, Replaced With Halal Meat
Alternative Title: BRITISH SCHOOLS CHOOSE TO PAY ZAKAT Parents have condemned a school’s decision to ban all pork products from the menu and replace other meats with halal versions. Pupils aged between three and 11 at Brinsworth Manor Infant and Junior...
- To Raise Money To Build Mosques And Madrasas Indonesian Council Of Ulama Forcing Australian Business To Pay Inflated Prices For Halal Certification
From Halal Pork Shop: POWERFUL Muslim clerics in Jakarta are raising money for Islamic schools and mosques by forcing Australian businesses to pay an inflated religious levy on meat exports.The Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI), the top Islamic...
- French Fast Food Chain Makes All Meals Halal
From the Telegraph: Quick, one of France's most popular fast food chains, has taken pork off the menu at eight of its restaurants, turning them into halal-only outlets. The chain has replaced bacon with smoked halal turkey in restaurants in three...
- Freedom Of Food
It looks like Denmark may hopefully have another score point in freedom of speech - for food. Neander News (via Michelle Malkin) translates an article from Jyllands-Posten that discusses how schools in Copenhagen are trying to restore pork meat for students...