"Kosher Chemistry: How Coca-Cola and Other Processed Foods Became Acceptable to Observant Jewish Consumers"

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org

In 1935 Coca-Cola proudly announced that it was officially kosher for use on Passover. Drawing from this case, Horowitz will show how firms worked with a new generation of rabbis familiar with food chemistry to make processed food acceptable to observant Jewish consumers.

Roger Horowitz is associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library and executive director of the Business History Conference. He is the author of "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!” A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990 (1997), and Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation (2006). Horowitz also wrote the entry on meat in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.