Apples and Honey I No footnotes. This is not a research paper. Kasha varnishkes, tzimmes, arbis; who knows what other names may find their way in here? Some of them seem to have immigrated into English, but if anyone checks, the names may lack green cards, speak with an accent, invert their phrases. Just off the boat. Just the lucky few. A generation almost all dead. Gone with grandma and grandpa, daddy and mommy, all the aunts and uncles. Once, on the streets of New York, billboards were printed in Yiddish, so the literate might understand. Even transliterated, I cannot make much sense of it. These simple nouns, we must figure out ourselves. We begin with food. We begin by filling our bellies.
Thank you for this lovely writing; it filled me with fragrances. and memories. Do they become more vivid in old age? No one suspected then that someday those dishes could be rarities. We always had them.
My Mother had transcribed her Mother's recipes with a pencil on lined stenographers' paper in ubergezetsin Roman alphabet Yiddish. We kids marveled at the passages where she had written:" Shit erine a bissel zaltz. " (Sift in a little salt.)
I love this, Jessica! Thank you, thank you for sharing it. It brings back so many memories for me - and the wonder of how many memories enter our mouths.
Sweet. Like the new year should be. Again.
Thanks & wishing you a sweet New Year.
Thanks!
Thanks so very much.
Joyce,
Thanks so much.
Jessica
I love this! So many of our memories match. Thank you and L'Shanah Tova
Sweet for the new year. Happy and healthy holidays
Thank you for this lovely writing; it filled me with fragrances. and memories. Do they become more vivid in old age? No one suspected then that someday those dishes could be rarities. We always had them.
My Mother had transcribed her Mother's recipes with a pencil on lined stenographers' paper in ubergezetsin Roman alphabet Yiddish. We kids marveled at the passages where she had written:" Shit erine a bissel zaltz. " (Sift in a little salt.)
I love this, Jessica! Thank you, thank you for sharing it. It brings back so many memories for me - and the wonder of how many memories enter our mouths.