American - Writer | May 30, 1952 - December 5, 2014
Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.
Gil Marks
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Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.
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The kosher community tends to follow often several years behind the general societal trends.
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There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several thousand years ago understood that it had to be more than just speaking: that in order for something to connect so emotionally in human beings, it had to be relived.
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The Passover experience is an incredibly pedagogic one.
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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.
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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.
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Food is never static; culture is never static.
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We can all be defined by food.
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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.
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The processing and preparation of food can transform a kosher item into a non-kosher item.
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