A Zagat for the Kosher Crowd

Forward, February, 1997

Forward 02-28-1997 A Zagat for the Kosher Crowd. Bela Flom was frustrated last summer. An Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn, she could never find a kosher restaurant away from her home turf. "We always found ourselves in Manhattan without a place to eat," she says. She knew there were more kosher eateries, but she had no idea how to find them.

She went to the bookstores, but she couldn't find anything. "I was astounded that in New York City, there wasn't one guide to address this need," says Ms. Flom. So she took matters into her own hands. A grueling four months -- and two computer failures -- later, she finished "The Authoritative New York City Kosher Dining Guide," a self-published work, which she calls the world's first kosher dining guide. It covers more than...

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