Videos | 2.22.2011

Video: Kosher Catering 101 - Dawn LaRochelle at work

Feast preparations by a caterer in a kosher kitchen, captured in a Harvard Magazine original video.

From The March-April 2011 Issue

A Harvard-trained lawyer, Dawn LaRochelle, J.D. ’96, owns a kosher catering business, Bete’ Avon! (Hebrew for bon appetit) in western Massachusetts. In this video, she explains some aspects of kosher eating as well as the techniques and challenges of catering a kosher feast—in this case, Tu B'Shevat, a Jewish festival of trees.

Published in the March-April 2011 print issue under the headline “Kosher Catering 101,” in the section.

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