Top 35 Quotes by Gil Marks

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?'

To know a community is to know its food.

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

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

One of the keys to Jewish culinary history is that the Jewish role was not so much innovation but transition and transformation.

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.

My family is notorious for its sweet tooth.