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[food] Jay Rayner in yesterday's Observer Magazine on food, criticism, his new novel and his family ... "I once joked that I was a Jew only by food, that I worshipped at my mother's fridge, and it's true that there was no room at the Rayner house for ritual or faith. The Jewish god was far too picky an eater to be given space at our table. Forgo sausages and bacon? Reject shellfish and cheeseburgers, all in the name of mumbo jumbo? Don't be ridiculous."