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Chulin, gives some characteristics of
kosher and non-kosher birds. To a
large extent, however, we rely on tra-
dition to determine which we may
eat.
Although ducks and geese are per-
mitted, by tradition we regard as
kosher only domesticated ducks and
geese, not the wild breeds. Birds of
prey are not kosher. There are varying
traditions regarding such creatures as
peacocks and pheasants.
A native bird to America, the turkey
was unknown to the rabbis of the Tal-
mud. The first men outside America
who laid eyes on turkeys were the
Spanish conquerors, who discovered
that the Aztec people of southern
Mexico had domesticated the wild
bird.
Around 1519, turkeys were taken
to Spain and from there spread
throughout Europe. It was then that
European rabbis first encountered the
turkey and had to decide if it fit the
characteristics laid down in the Tal-
mud for kosher birds. These were: an
extra talon, a craw (or crop — a
pouch-like enlargement of a bird's
esophagus, in which food is stored or
partly digested), and peel-able skin on
the stomach.
To most observers, the turkey was
gallinaceous, chicken-like, and the
rabbis ruled that turkeys were permit-
ted. Rabbi Yishaya ben Avraham ha-
levi Horowitz disagreed.
Born in 1565, Rabbi Yishaya was
an eminent scholar and author who
became famous for his halachic-kab-
balistic book Shnei Luchot ha-Brit (Two
Tablets of the Covenant). To this day,
his descendants do not eat turkey.
About Corn
Like the turkey, corn is native to Ameri-
ca, having been first discovered by
Europeans — Iwo Spanish explorers
sent by Christopher Columbus to
explore Cuba — in November 1492.
The Spanish brought corn to
Europe, and it soon spread to the rest
of the world. A versatile grain, it lent
itself to many uses and was milled for
use in baking bread.
But corn presents a halachic prob-
lem. Because it was unknown to
ancient Jews, it is not included in the
list of the five species of grain: wheat,
barley, rye, oats and spelt. Bread
made from these grains can be eaten
with the bracha, blessing, of
HaMotzi.
Halachically, cornbread is not
bread, so its consumption is not pre-
ceded by washing the hands and the
recitation of HaMotzi. Most rabbis
agree that cornbread falls into the
same category as other grain flours
made into batter, rather than dough,
and are regarded as mzonot, such as
cake, or baked into products other
than bread, like noodles.
These foods are eaten following the
bracha of borey miney mzonot.
About Cranberries
Cranberries are found in marshy land
in northern North America, northern
Asia and northern Europe, so
although it is a native American plant,
it is not native exclusively to America.
The native American cranberry is,
however, superior to its old-world
cousins in that the plant bears larger
berries.
The bracha recited for plant foods is
either borey pri ha-etz ("who has cre-
ated the fruit of the tree"), for foods
that grow on trees, and borey pri ha-
adama ("who has created the fruit of
the soil"), for foods that grow directly
from the ground, such as tomatoes
and. strawberries.
Halacha, however, does not pre-
cisely follow botany.
Foods that grow from annual plants
those that must be replanted every
year, such as cucumbers or beans —
take the bracha of borey pri ha-
adama. Foods that grow from perma-
nent plants, including trees and bush-
es that do not die after one growing
season, such as blueberries, take the
bracha of borey pri ha-etz.
Cranberries are found on woody
stems that linger for many years. Thus,
although they do not grow on trees,
cranberries take the bracha of borey
pri ha-etz.