Gil Marks Quotes

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

I grew up in a typical Ashkenazi household. My bubbe actually lived with us. She'd make us the traditional colorless, beige, heavy foods: chicken soup, kreplach, gefilte fish, tzimmes.

When I'm at home, I eat kimchi every single day.

Give me buttered white bread with Marmite crisps and salad cream and I'm a happy girl.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

Queso is my number one.

I like my fried chicken, my pizza, my peaches and my gefilte fish.

I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.

My favorite afternoon snack as a child in San Diego was a still-steaming flour tortilla purchased at the taqueria down the street from my school, and I've yearned for them ever since I moved away.

A burger is a black dress; a kebab is a Met Gala gown.

I genuinely like haggis. Everybody told me I was supposed to hate it, but I really did enjoy it.

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

Escamoles have a cottage cheese-like consistency and have a buttery yet slightly nutty flavor. They are usually served sauteed with butter, garlic, and scallions for making soft corn tortilla tacos.

Besides going to new restaurants, I like to eat home-cooked food made by my mom and sometimes I enjoy Mumbai's local street food also.

Chex mix is this wonderful crunch that you just can't get enough of.

This whole concept of basket chaat is so unique, and it is really yummy!

In school, I used to love eating pav bhaji and kulchey choley from our canteen.

Pierogies are textbook comfort food.