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Fears that hog fat caused digestive problems led to the introduction in 1911 of Crisco, which hyped the fact that it contained no animal products at all.

The Jews waited 4,000 years... for Crisco? Aimee Levitt © Image: From The New York Public Library (Fair Use) Any Jew will tell you that it’s hard to be a Jew, and that includes the Jews who arrived in America from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. Yes, they were no longer persecuted or subjected to pogroms. Yes, they had religious freedom in the golden land of opportunity. And yes, they no longer had to subsist on a diet of potatoes. Still, there are always problems, and in the New World they were more existential. In the Old Country, Jews were, for the most part, ...