Kitchen Talk With Gabriele Corcos from 'Extra Virgin'
You would probably never guess it, but the heavily tattooed Gabriele Corcos, who co-hosts the Cooking Channel’s “Extra Virgin” with his wife Debi Mazar, was raised in a kosher home in Florence, Italy. He’s the son of a Jewish father and Catholic mother (who had a Jewish father).
Before heading back to Italy to film the second season of his Cooking Channel series, Corcos broke the news to his father that he will be cooking treyf … and lots of it. “I explained to him that there will be a lot of pork and shellfish. He understands that this is important to me and it’s business,” Corcos said.
We talked to the television-chef about growing up kosher in Italy, keeping Pesach in the Alps and keeping a secret pork drawer at home.
Jewish cooking is steeped in tradition. Is tradition as important for Italian cooking?
Every family has rooted recipes passed down for generations, orally… Nothing is written down …. Tradition manifests itself in Italy constantly through food: every region, city, village, rural area and individual families have food rituals and festivities. Every season in Italy is celebrated with food. Where I grew up, we had food festivals for every kind of food: from boar to chestnuts, from langostini to tortelli, from bruschetta to tripe! However, we are more prone to celebrate meat and pastas way more than vegetables… the only vegetable that in Tuscany gets its own festival is “Cavolo Nero” (Tuscan Kale).
Were you completely kosher growing up?
My father kept kosher. But we didn’t have separate dishes. It wasn’t until I moved to the U.S. that I really saw what Kosher was. But my dad had absolutely no pork and no shellfish. There was no mixing cheese with meat.
I was the only Jewish kid in my school, and all my friends would bring mortadella and prosciutto with cheese to school. I always had one piece of cheese between bread.
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Bank holidays are announced by Reserve Bank of India .The bank holiday calendar dates may fluctuate from state to state as festivals are unique to each state. There are no transactions made. Some of the bank holidays in India that incorporate both optional and gazette holidays. Bank Holidays calendar 2010 is as under Jan: 26: Tuesday: Republic Day,Feb: 26: Friday: Milad un Nabi , August: 15: Sunday: Independence Day,September: 10: Friday: Id ul fitr, October: 02: Saturday: Gandhi Jayanti ,17: Sunday: Vijayadasami (Dussehra),November: 05: Friday: Diwali,21: Sunday: Guru Nanak Jayanti ,December: 17: Friday: Muharram. Bank Holidays calendar 2011 is as under: Muharram ,Republic Day ,Milad un Nabi ,Independence Day, Gandhi Jayanti ,Id ul fitr, Dussehra ,Diwali ,Guru Nanak Jayanti andChristmas.
A bank holiday in UK is a public holiday. There is no automatic right to time off on these days, although the majority of the population not employed in essential services receives them as holidays; those employed in essential services usually receive extra pay for working on these days. The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially used for public holidays which are not officially bank holidays, for example Good Friday and Day. The summer bank holiday is the last Monday of August in England.
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