“During my bus ride out to the nursing home, I filled ou the rest of the story: After more than a thousand years of keeping their meat and dairy separated, along came Jesus who apparently told the Jews that it wasn’t a big deal after all. He told anyone who’d listen that boiling a young goat in his mother’s milk wasn’t really a commandment from above, rather just a helpful culinary tip like ‘Don’t oversalt’ or ‘Thaw before eating.”
