RE: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: August 22, 2012

'Ţuică' is as far as I can tell the Romanian for Czech 'slivovice', Slovak 'slivovica', Croatian 'sljivovica', Yiddish 'slivovitz'; Hungarian calls specifically this švestka/Zwetschge-plum product 'pálinka', but the word is straight from Czech or Slovak, in which it generically means 'brandy' (Yiddish 'brandvain' or 'bronfn').

In the Czech Republic, both R Jelínek (Rudolf Jelínek was a Jew and an Auschwitz victim) and Kleiner make certified Kosher slivovice:

http://en.rjelinek.cz/products/slivovice (this 'Wallachian kingdom' is not in Romania but is part of a diaspora of originally Balkan-Latin speaking shepherds who also colonized Romania, ultimately from Macedonia; 'Valašsko' is in NE Moravia, i.e. Czech Rep. bordering Slovakia and south Poland, & now speaks only Czech dialect);

http://www.slivovicekleiner.cz/kosher.html.

From: bounce-63535883-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-63535883-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of andy halmay
Sent: 23 August 2012 14:47
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: August 22, 2012

The List and Hardy are my post grad education. I've never before heard the word Powidl. I guess since dad was Hungarian and insisted on Hungarian cuisine, there is much of the real Czernowitz that I missed out on. I do recall a dark spread and, of course, Kompote of all kinds but Powidl is new to me. I wonder if the Ukrainians in Chernivtsi still make it? I visited Bucharest in 1994 and stayed with a friend in the center of town where they had a small disaster right after I arrived. Someone in the neighborhood used a ton of plums to make Tuica (Tzuica) and flushed the residue and skins down the toilet which clogged up the whole street's sewage system. The last time I bought a bottle of Tuica (for medicinal purposes) was in Tel Aviv in 2007 and it was imported from Romania. Bon apetit. Prosit!
Andy

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