Re: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidl

The flurry of e-mail regarding powidi and p'tcha and the once-
happy times those delicacies evoked reminded me of the classic,
"A la recherch de Temps Perdue" (Remembrances of Time Lost")
by Marcel Proust. He began the novel with the protagonist biting
into a madelaine (pastry) which triggered nostalgic memories.
That, incidentally, may be why so many folks console themselves
with food when they're unhappy.
    But when some of you mentioned p'tcha (calf's-foot jelly) as another
Austrian and/or Czernowitz delicacy, I laughed recalling a time years
ago when I was four or five and my Czernowitz-born grandmother used
to make that specialty dish, announcing the word p'tcha" so fast it used
to sound like a sneeze. So whenever Bobba would announce she had
made p'tcha ,I'd respond with "God bless you", which always evoked
smiles and outright laughter from the adults.
    Actually, when I told you I laughed when I remembered, I also
cried - because of a longing for a time that was lost..
.
     So here's to Happy Days.
                                                                Regards,
 
                                                                 Iris
                                                Iris June Steinhauser
Vinegar
 
 
In a message dated 8/23/2012 9:05:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu writes:
Like Hedwig, I think that our correspondence about life in Czernowitz
as we remember it, would make a most interesting "Bible".
I wish that an anthropologist or sociologist would organize the material
and analyze it.
I am certain that without the tireless devotion with which Bruce Reisch
handles our correspondence and Jerome organizes our website
and Edgar keeps adding pertinent facts, our list would not exist,
or would be a silly chat-group.

Many, many thanks to all three of them and also to Hardy, for
stirring the pot
and bringing long forgotten or controversial subjects to the surface.

Mimi

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