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Gil Marks
American
Writer
Born:
May 30
,
1952
Died:
Dec 5
,
2014
Every
Food
Foods
Jewish
Religion
You
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Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.
Gil Marks
Food
Religion
People
Other
Part
Judaism
Just
Story
Customs
Connected
Larger
The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.
Gil Marks
Food
Example
Evolving
Classic
Classic Example
Sophisticated
Comfort
Comfort Food
Fare
Even
Peasant
Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.
Gil Marks
Fruit
Sweet
Wines
Generally
Although
Them
Used
Avoid
Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.
Gil Marks
Family
Desserts
Sophisticated
Sort
Friends
Family And Friends
Modern
Often
Experimenting
Fancy
Fare
Prepare
Each
Adaptation
The more things you make from scratch, the less expensive and usually healthier and tastier.
Gil Marks
You
More
Make
Healthier
Scratch
Expensive
Less
Things
I never serve a dessert on Passover that I would not serve the rest of the year.
Gil Marks
Rest
Year
Dessert
Would
Never
Serve
The key to Judaism's survival is the emotional attachment to the religion.
Gil Marks
Religion
Survival
Key
Attachment
Emotional
Judaism
To know a community is to know its food.
Gil Marks
Food
Community
Know
A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.
Gil Marks
Food
Become
Point
Rituals
Almost
Within
Context
Repeated
Been
Cultural
May
Either
Sanctified
Holidays
Use
Jewish
Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.
Gil Marks
Every
Foods
None
Holiday
Much
Fare
Unique
Symbolic
To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.
Gil Marks
Life
Food
Me
Everyday
Most
Celebrations
Aspect
Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.
Gil Marks
Me
Quality
Mother
Father
Year
Control
Every
Tells
Like
How
His
Taste
Just
Samples
Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on.
Gil Marks
Later
Out
Significance
Religious
Eat
Foods
Most
Traditional
Holidays
Them
Reason
Why
Start
Jewish
Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.
Gil Marks
Good
Jews
Known
Always
Were
Cooks
The Passover experience is an incredibly pedagogic one.
Gil Marks
Experience
Incredibly
If I'm doing an olive oil tasting, I would do a very lean bread: an Italian style or pita bread. You want the flavor of the oil to shine; you don't want the bread or anything else to mask it.
Gil Marks
You
Mask
Style
Shine
Else
Would
Lean
Doing
Italian
Very
Tasting
Oil
Want
Bread
Anything
Anything Else
Flavor
Olive
Olive Oil
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