Jewish Food

 
SHEPPING NACHAS!
 
     On Friday, I stopped by the nearby Barnes & Noble bookstore on Broadway, as I am wont to do from time to time, and took the escalator upstairs to the cookbook section to see if my new book, Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, had arrived. When I had visited the store earlier in the [...]

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!
     The Encyclopedia of Jewish food is here. Today is the official release date. After three intensive years of obsessively compiling and editing a world of food information, I am holding a copy of the EJF (as we have taken to calling it for short) in my hands.
     My initial impression was [...]

     I have to admit something -— I’m excited. After more than three years of obsessive work, my new book, Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, is at last going to see the light of day. The initial release of the EJF is now only a week away. It will be available via Amazon and other online [...]

     Mumbai, India might be best known today in Jewish circles for the massacre by terrorists (yes, they were terrorists who specifically targeted Jews, despite the reluctance of certain media in stating this fact—-sorry, just ventilating a bit) at the Chabad center in November 2008. However, Mumbai (or Bombay, as it used to be known) [...]

Shalom! It’s been an edifying week for me. My television died. It was only about six years old or so and a name brand, so it should have lasted much longer. Planned obsolescence must be getting shorter. Anyway, I walked over to a nearby electronics store hoping to purchase a [...]

    Hi! I’ve been remiss about blogging for a while. But I do have a good excuse, as I have been preoccupied for the past several months with editing and proofing my next book, the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food (due out in mid-September 1010 from Wiley Publishing).  
     For the past twenty five years, I [...]

TASTES OF ISRAEL
By Gil Marks
 
     Where has all the leben gone?  There was a time, not so long ago, when an Israeli breakfast and dinner typically consisted of white bread, a few simple jellies, tomato-cucumber salad, perhaps a bowl of Shalva (a slightly sweetened puffed wheat), and a trio of leben (coagulated low-butterfat milk in [...]

Shalom U’all!  Since I will be in Israel for the next month or so, I thought I would concentrate the blog on Israeli food.  I look forward to hearing your thoughts! 
Gil Marks
P.S.  I am busy editing the manuscript for my next book, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, due out from Wiley in 2010.