NUTRITION AND ODED SCHWARTZ

A healthy body requires a healthy soul—the two are totally interdependent. In Hebrew, the initials of “body” (guf) and “soul” (neshamah) spell the word for “garden” (gan). A kosher, well balanced diet, together with proper, Divinely oriented consciousness, brings us back to the unadulterated state of the Garden of Eden, where God placed us before the primordial sin of eating that which G-d had forbidden. Just as mankind was exiled from the Edenic state because of choosing to eat unwisely, so our return to the Edenic state depends on our most basic drive: our need to eat. 

Jewish cooking is a unique synthesis of cooking styles from the many places that Jews have lived throughout the centuries. Jewish cooking shows the influence of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Spanish, German and Eastern European styles of cooking, all influenced by the unique dietary constraints of kashrutnd other Jewish laws.  We join our resident chef Oded Schwartz as he shows us how to make holishkesor stuffed cabbage leaves.