Top 35 Quotes by Gil Marks

Although I generally avoid the cloyingly sweet wines, I have used them for poaching fruit.

The more things you make from scratch, the less expensive and usually healthier and tastier.

The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.

The processing and preparation of food can transform a kosher item into a non-kosher item.

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.

The Passover experience is an incredibly pedagogic one.

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

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.

In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.

To know a community is to know its food.