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Kosher haggis supplier burns with enthusiasm

To communities north of the border, Burns Night is when we are not just common-or-garden Jews - we're Scottish Jews.

January 20, 2011 14:26
It’s a wrap: Doreen Cohen and head chef Peter Turner with some of the haggis ready for delivery

By

Stephanie Brickman

1 min read

To communities north of the border, Burns Night is when we are not just common-or-garden Jews - we're Scottish Jews.

On January 25, haggis will be ceremonially "piped in" to celebrations of the life and works of the national bard in homes and synagogue halls - and a poem, Ode to a Haggis, recited in mock solemnity.

But no self-respecting Burns Night party would be complete without a haggis lovingly prepared by Doreen Cohen, who is marking 25 years as the world's only kosher haggis purveyor.

At this time of year, Mrs Cohen's company kitchens at Simcha Catering are the scene of frenzied activity as she and her team prepare more than 150 pounds of haggis for dispatch to destinations both close to home and as far afield as Israel and America.