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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
Almost
Become
Been
Context
Cultural
Either
Food
Holidays
Jewish
May
Point
Repeated
Rituals
Sanctified
Use
Within
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Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.
~ Gil Marks
Although
Avoid
Fruit
Generally
Sweet
Them
Used
Wines
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Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.
~ Gil Marks
Adaptation
Desserts
Each
Experimenting
Family
Family And Friends
Fancy
Fare
Friends
Modern
Often
Prepare
Sophisticated
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Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.
~ Gil Marks
Every
Fare
Foods
Holiday
Much
None
Symbolic
Unique
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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
Control
Every
Father
His
How
Just
Like
Me
Mother
Quality
Samples
Taste
Tells
Year
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Food is never static; culture is never static.
~ Gil Marks
Culture
Food
Never
Static
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Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.
~ Gil Marks
Defense
Defense Mechanism
Food
Harsh
Helped
Humor
Jewish
Jews
Like
Mechanism
Often
One Of The Things
Sense
Sense Of Humor
Sort
Survive
Things
Through
Very
Years
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I don't understand a mentality that will accept eating something that doesn't taste good just because it's low-fat or is made with matzo or whatever.
~ Gil Marks
Accept
Because
Eating
Good
Just
Just Because
Made
Mentality
Something
Taste
Understand
Whatever
Will
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I have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, 'You're a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don't you do an encyclopedia?'
~ Gil Marks
Been
Collecting
Editor
Encyclopedia
Food
Information
Me
Over
Recipes
Said
Three
Walking
Why
Years
Years Ago
You
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I never serve a dessert on Passover that I would not serve the rest of the year.
~ Gil Marks
Dessert
Never
Rest
Serve
Would
Year
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I tend to avoid cakes made with matzo meal instead of flour. Also, most prepared dessert products and mixes. Sometimes the packaging they come in tastes better than the product.
~ Gil Marks
Also
Avoid
Better
Cakes
Come
Dessert
Flour
Instead
Made
Meal
Most
Packaging
Prepared
Product
Products
Sometimes
Tastes
Tend
Than
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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
Anything
Anything Else
Bread
Doing
Else
Flavor
Italian
Lean
Mask
Oil
Olive
Olive Oil
Shine
Style
Tasting
Very
Want
Would
You
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In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.
~ Gil Marks
Absence
Act
Almost
Ate
Bound
Custom
Either
Entails
Every
Everything
Food
Instance
Itself
Judaism
Laws
Much
Part
Religion
Ritual
Up
Very
You
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In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.
~ Gil Marks
About
Area
Community
Cultural
Every
Find
Jewish
Jews
Just
Metropolitan
New
New York
World
York
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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
Connected
Customs
Food
Judaism
Just
Larger
Other
Part
People
Religion
Story
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Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew.
~ Gil Marks
Adhere
American
Even
Jew
Judaism
Most
Per
Precepts
Religion
Sense
Still
Think
Various
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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
Eat
Foods
Holidays
Jewish
Later
Most
Out
Reason
Religious
Significance
Start
Them
Traditional
Why
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My family is notorious for its sweet tooth.
~ Gil Marks
Family
Notorious
Sweet
Sweet Tooth
Tooth
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One of the keys to Jewish culinary history is that the Jewish role was not so much innovation but transition and transformation.
~ Gil Marks
Culinary
History
Innovation
Jewish
Keys
Much
Role
Transformation
Transition
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Passover is the most widely observed of all the Jewish holidays, and the Passover Seder... is the most practiced of all the Jewish rituals.
~ Gil Marks
Holidays
Jewish
Most
Observed
Practiced
Rituals
Widely
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30 May, 1952
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05 December, 2014
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