[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #134 - 16 msgs

[Vincent Cuenca]

>Vicente said:
> > > > > > So call it "mush," which is what my mother and
> > > > > > grandmother called it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Bear
> > Or go Romanian and call it "mamaliga".  Serve with Pastrami, karnatzeleh
>und
> > a glaizel of wein and you've got a famous klezmer tune.
>
>Ok, so what is Karnatzeleh? Is "a glaizel of wein", a glass of wine?
>
>--
IIRC, "karnatzeleh" is Yiddish for a kind of sausage.  You got the wine
right.  The whole thing is from a very famous, very funny Yiddish
theater/klezmer song from the 1920s, sung from the viewpoint of a homesick
Romanian immigrant. Billy Crystal sings part of it in "Mr. Saturday Night",
and it's a live standard for the Klezmer Conservatory Band.  It's great fun,
particularly at the end when the singer has to scat at warp speed and make
champagne-cork popping sounds.

Vincent
(Vicente knows nothing about klezmer)
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