RE: [Cz-L] TYPICAL FOOD IN CZERNOWITZ

Hi Phil and all:

How interesting that you and my grandmother both ended up in Rockland
County; she died at my mother's home in Monsey in 1996 at the age of 95! As
you can see she was a couple of generations old than you; she left Berlad
in 1905 at the age of 5 and left Czernowitz for Vienna at the beginning of
WWI and Vienna in 1938 (three months after the Anschluss passing the three
years after that in Luxemburg, Paris, and Nice before escaping with my
mother, her sister and stepfather over the Pyrenees and to the U.S. via
Spain and Portugal . However she retained a taste for the foods of her
formative years, particularly patlazele and mamaliga (with or without sour
cream,cottage cheese,mushrooms etc. ) and passed it on to me, as well as
retaining the multilingual and cosmopolitan characteristics of her
Czernowitz upbringing. (She worked as a translator until she was 90, using
her knowledge of 7 languages including Russian, which she learned to read in
her 50's and claimed was easier for her because she heard
Ukrainian/Ruthenian while growing up in Czernowitz.)

I am going to try Merle's recipe for malai, after all the delicious
descriptions!! Incidentally,my grandmother used "Quaker brand" cornmeal
hear; I generally use the Goya brand "coarse" cornmeal (maiz gruesa) for
mamaliga.

Alison Cordero

32 S. Oxford St. #3A

Brooklyn NY 11217

(718)858-2137

(cell) 646 852 1432

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From: Philkatz27_at_aol.com [mailto:Philkatz27_at_aol.com]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:49 PM
To: hn4534_at_earthlink.net; cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net; pheger_at_gmail.com;
czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] TYPICAL FOOD IN CZERNOWITZ

Hi Alison, nothing about food in Czernowitz, however, you're Grandmother's
journey fascinated me. You see, it sort of mirrored my own. I was born in
the Czernowitz Ghetto in 1941, from there we somehow wound up in Berlad,
then to Bucharest, and finally to Vienna in the US occupied zone, via
Budapest. We crossed from Bremer Haven to the US in 1950 and eventually
wound up in NY as well. We currently reside in Rockland County. Yours was
the very first mention I have seen in the group of Barlad, so I was
compelled to share my story with you. But, not to let this e-mail on food go
to waste, my favorite food as a child was Mamaliga mit Schmetten, loosely
translated, corn dough with sour cream.

Be well,

Phil Katz

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