Top 35 Quotes by Gil Marks

The Passover experience is an incredibly pedagogic one.

Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.

The key to Judaism's survival is the emotional attachment to the religion.

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.

My family is notorious for its sweet tooth.

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.

Food is never static; culture is never static.

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.

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.