Re: [Fwd: seder in china]

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

    Tayere Lorele:
   I believe that the explanation is because rice( and also beans) swell 
when they are cooking which is akin to them being leavened.
Although I do know of some Sephardim that eat lentils on Pesach for good 
luck.
    Trudi the G

>From: Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: [Fwd: seder in china]
>Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 06:45:25 -0400
>
>Hi, gang,
>
>Perhaps one of you could explain simply to my friend, Sonia.  Thanks.
>
>Lorele
>
>Sonia Fuentes wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > I received the attached note from Wayne Robins, a food writer at the NY
> > Daily News, inquiring why rice is forbidden at Passover (at least, I was
> > told that at the seder I attended in Shanghai some years ago).  If any
> > of you know the reason, would you get
> > back to Wayne and copy me.
> >
> > Thanks so much.  It's early--but a Happy Peysakh!
> >
> > Sonia/Sheyndl
> >
> > --
> > Sonia Pressman Fuentes
> > 11928 Frost Valley Way
> > Potomac, MD 20854-2879
> >
> > tel. 301-340-1108
> > fax: 301-610-0945
> > e-mail:  sfuentes (at) erols(dot)com
> >
> > website:
> > http://www.erraticimpact.com/~feminism/html/sonia_pressman_fuentes.htm
> >
> >   
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: seder in china
> > Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:33:27 -0400
> > From: Wayne Robins <wrobin (at) interport(dot)net>
> > To: sfuentes (at) erols(dot)com
> >
> > Dear Sonia:
> > I read with much interest your story about a seder in Shanghai. I am a
> > food writer for the NY Daily news, and I am doing a story about using
> > the internet to find interesting Passover dishes. But one thing threw
> > me: Though I am Ashkenazi myself, your mention that rice is verbotten at
> > the Passover table took me by surprise. (Actually, it was never an
> > issue). Would it be because rice grains when cooked "leaven," and
> > therefore rice would be considered chometz?
> > Just wondering.
> > Sincerely,
> > Wayne Robins
> > "Thoughts on Food" columnist NY Daily News
> >
> > wrobin (at) interport(dot)net
> > (718) 357-0918
>
>

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