Re: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla + Pitkowes+Porubsky

 From what my parents told me, there was hunger in Czernowitz as well,
during WW1. The Russians also looted the city, I think twice.
Everyone who could left Czernowitz and this was later always referred to
as "Die Flucht". One of my uncles was sent to his grandparents in Borsa
and my grandmother fled to Budapest with the three younger children.
My mother and her younger brother must have suffered from malnutrition,
because they for ever bore the evidence of "Rachitis" (Rickets).

I have not previously heard of Franz Porubsky, I will look for his books
in the university library.

Mimi
On Aug 23, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Irene Fishler wrote:

>
> Dear Mimi,
>
> It seems that my mother shared your taste. She never cooked pitzieh
> and I
> have never heard this word at our home ( in Rumanian- piftie)!
>
> The document I'm talking about is a postcard written on July 7,
> 1918 by the
> well known Czernowitzer writer and journalist Franz Porubsky.
>
> He sits in Wien drinking "thin war-beer" and dreams about the food
> and drink
> and the " fette Pitkowes" at my grandfather's Kramer restaurant on
> Bankgasse in Czernowitz !
>
> He must have been hungry and longing for Czernowitz.
>
> In Vienna food-shortages were a big problem at that time. Was the
> situation
> in Czernowitz better?
>
> I believe Porubsky meant "calves foot jelly", as some of you
> mentioned.
>
> Thank you,
> Regards
> Irene
>
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