Kosher? Depends what you mean by 'baking'
And you thought baking Pillsbury brownies was a piece of cake. According to the rabbinic definition of baking, you don't even need the mix. Last night, David Freidenreich, a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, discussed a taboo against eating foods prepared by people who are not Jewish and how definitions have been changed over time, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways, to get around the custom.








