[ Ah, a return to the dreaded Garlic thread ;-) ]
Garlic historically is a taboo of Germanic peoples: Germans-proper (not necessarily Austrians), Dutch, Scandinavians, English very much! In the Indian subcontinent, it's a taboo for Kashmiri Pandits and those Panjabis with a Jat caste heritage - and some comparative-historical linguists think that the word "Jat" is related to the very Germanic "Goth". (These people use Asafoetida or "hing" as a substitute.)
In Britain, Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders use wild garlic to flavour cream cheeses like Caboc and Hramsa. The Welsh Cawl [kaul] or Lobsgows ['lopskous] is a lamb goulash that often incorporates garlic. It's not taboo for Celtic people! In France, debauched but excellent poet Paul Verlaine relishes "Tout cet aďl de basse cuisine" (all that garlic of "low" cooking), suggesting that for the Germanicizing nobility of France, that country's second-to-none folk cuisine seemed "low" because of its generous use of garlic.
Garlic is completely OK for Slavic peoples, Magyars and Vlachs (Romanians): all of them, very much including my own Czechs, lay it on generously in goulashes and other dishes. However, my late mother's best friend came from Prostějov (German: Prossnitz), near my own family's Olomouc-Olmütz, and also the birthplace of German-speaking Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl. Pre-Bene-decrees, the Germans were the majority in that town, including its would-be big-wigs who called the shots as far as taste was concerned. My mother's friend, pure Czech Slav as far as I know, used to call my mother - pure Czech Slav but for one Hungarian great-grandmother, her mother's sister married to a Jewish doctor, of course later married to my very Jewish father - "idovička" (little Jewess), because of her cooking which so frequently featured the disapproved-of bulb!
Charles Polák
mailto:charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk
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From: bounce-118838442-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118838442-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of yosi-jerry
Sent: 19 February 2015 17:44
To: Hardy Breier; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Garlic
As somebody that follows my family's cooking tradition - Garlic is a common
ingredient in many dishes. Which causes - as you can imagine - many social
problems. The word "Knobljude"- "Garlicjew" was, is used by the German
speaking anti-Semites.
Yosef Eshet
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