[Avodah] soup

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:19:49PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
> Sorry to be writing so much about this subject, but I elided this by  
> writing "meal/bread" in a previous post.  Porridge is also the subject  
> of a machlokes rishonim...

Tangent: In the world of the Ashk rishonim, porridge was the staple of
the local population's diet, moreso than bread. There are theories about
the rarity of mills that produced flour fine enough for dough (this was
the "Dark Ages" in that part of the world), dental limitations, etc...

But I think this has much to do with the birth of the minhag of qitniyos.

Which is why I am so interested about whether we would count pits (like
qinoa) as daisa.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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