Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods to Jewish sensibilities and dietary laws and then spreading them.
It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.
I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
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