[Sca-cooks] liver dumplings

[Patricia Collum]

This was so bad in my family that I was raised thinking that grandma was
Austrian (a non-soviet block country) instead of Ukranian, lest anyone might
posibly think we were russian or soviet. It wasn't until I was 18 (in 1976)
that grandma presented me with a Ukranian cookbook, that I found out the
truth. But it did explain the cool easter eggs she made.

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Clark" <alexbclark at pennswoods.net>
 Distinctions between
> ethnic groups tend to be artificial and exaggerated. Some people will
> disown things belonging to their own ethnic group for fear that it might
> suggest that they associated with another ethnic group.
>
> For example, there's a Croatian dance-song named Hopa Hopa. A folklorist
> named Dick Crum learned the dance and the song from an ethnic Croatian
> community. A few years ago he was teaching the dance to some
> Croatian-Americans, and they indignantly insisted that it was not Croatian
> because the song uses the word "popadiju" which means priest's wife. I
> don't know what it's like now, but before the war in the '90s there were
> lots of places where Roman Catholic Croatians and Orthodox Serbs lived as
> neighbors, so there was no reason to assume that the people who first sang
> the song didn't have a popadiju in their town or village.
>
> Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
>
>