[Avodah] soup

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> So is buckwheat, which is the ultimate kashe, so much that it doesn't
> have a name of its own.   And "daisa", at least whenever it's used by
> Ashkenazi poskim, is an exact synonym for "kashe".

But quinoa comes in fruit, they don't have husks, they have berries.

And in the days of the poseqim you're citing, all pseudocereals, including
buckwheat, were harvested much like oats. Quinoa is more like pistachios.
I'm not sure they would have grouped quinoa with kashe had they known
about it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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