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Halal Food: A History. By Febe Armanios and Boğaç Ergene. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 400 pp. $29.95.
Is Cadbury chocolate or Coca-Cola and Pepsi halal? Armanios and Ergene offer a comprehensive overview of Islamic food laws and their modern-day application. Those laws require, they explain, not just avoiding alcohol and pork but the detection of minute amounts of these forbidden substances in other consumables. "In 2014," the authors report, Cadbury "came under fire after the Malaysian Health Ministry discovered pork DNA in some of its popular treats." And, "a 2012 French study confirmed that...