RE: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla

Hi! This seems strange to me! From Czernowitz we first went to
Liberec(Reichenberg) and we had German neighbours who were still there...and
they had no such food prejudices as far as I remember. My Austrian friends
certainly like all these Jewish concoctions! And Charles...since you seem to
have a UK email address,tell me what part of England...and I will tell you
where you can get good Povidlo here!! Best, Cornel

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-63519259-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-63519259-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
Sent: 22 August 2012 17:46
To: Charles Polak; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla

Dear Charles..
  I imagine that
Germans will not eat Cholent, Mamaliga, Kishke,Holishkes ,
P'tcha (also known as "calves foot jelly"), Gefilte Fisch.
  Unless they have undergone big changes,
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Polak" <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla

This is the first time I've ever replied to Czernowitz posts (of which I
have a huge online archive of my own!), because I don't think I'm qualified:
all my people came from what's now the Czech Republic, either Prague or
Olomouc where I now own my family's 'restituted' house in which I stay 4-6
times a year.

What's clear to me is that Czernowitz doesn't seem to have been very unlike
Bohemia and Moravia. One extraordinary resemblance, however, is Povidl -
Czech (including Czech Jews!) tend to love it; the 'Sudeten' Germans - the
mostly strongly nationalist and very anti-Semitic Bohemian and Moravian
German-speaking Gentiles, well organized as a now 2nd-, 3rd- or even
4th-generation community in Germany and Austria - go out of their way to say
how much they hate it!

Povidl is of course very much alive and in production in the Czech Republic.

Another Czech-German food taboo is garlic. Essentially, again, Czechs and
Jews love it; a friend of my late mother's, a Czech but brought up in the
then otherwise mainly 'German' town of Prostějov ('Prossnitz') called her
'židovička' ('little Jewess') because she put it in her goulashes.

Does anyone from Czernowitz know of similar German food taboos, dividing
them from both Jews and local Slavs (Ukrainians) or Romanians?
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