SC - OOP - Pumpernickel recipes

[Terri Millette]

Tollhase1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I am surprised that you never encounter the word "blintzes" while in the
> Russ.  I had always believed that the word origin was eastern euopean/yiddish.

That could be highly regional/ethnic differences. We were in East
Russia/ZaBaikal. Roughly, south Siberia. Lots of Old Believers, etc. And
I also read a caution long ago that Russia is not Europe (geographically
and geologically, the western edge is, west of the Urals, but not so
much culturally). Could be the food and name had a common origin, then
branched away from each other. While 'blini' is a Russian word, I still
don't think "blintz' is. And remember, where using Anglizations of
Russian and/or Slavic words, with differing alphabets and phonetics.

How similar and different are Chinese noodles, and Italian pasta which
developed from it? Any other examples of similar medieval foods
developing regional variation? Seems like Great Britain vs. the
Continent would provide several examples.

Seumas
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seumas at mind.net
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