What Becomes of the Humble Cabbage?
My gut reaction upon reading that Eastern European comfort foods are going to become trendy this year was "great. Now I can't eat kishka because the thought of the glitterati serving it with balsamic reduction and truffle oil makes me sick."
Then I realized this trend could really make Cleveland a place on the culinary map. Hordes of New Yorkers will be flying out to taste some authentic, post-industrial pierogi. University Inn will become as exclusive as Carmine's.
Wait, no, I don't like that future. Let's keep our paprikash to ourselves, shall we?
Then I realized this trend could really make Cleveland a place on the culinary map. Hordes of New Yorkers will be flying out to taste some authentic, post-industrial pierogi. University Inn will become as exclusive as Carmine's.
Wait, no, I don't like that future. Let's keep our paprikash to ourselves, shall we?
posted by Christine Borne at 1:34 PM
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Darn it...and I was ever so hopeful in terms of using the kishka and pierogis test for ferreting out whether a future bride could stand me and what I ate! If such just becomes trendy and everybody is eating kishka, then what? :-)
Actually, the only tourism press I see on Cleveland always mentions the food. The problem is that the tourism board hasn't realized that it should play to that strength and launched a campaign. Like the WSM's "Today's Tastes, Yesterday's Traditions" slogan--"Cleveland--One City, 500,000 People Cooking."
And as an Eastern European, I would welcome a EE food trend that 1)realized that EE food isn't necessarily Jewish cooking and 2) kicked those overplayed Italians and the disgusting tomato into the gutter. Bring it on--you want cucina povera and resourcefulness? We didn't even have weather and we ate well! So I'm all for a revival of the cabbage, homemade noodles and milk products in all forms.
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Ah, it's too late to stop the Eastern European trend--peasant blouses have been in for months and everyone is looking for a little Cold War Nosalgia--which means, in addition to some relief from the psychology from the Global War on Terror, substituting its amorphous enemy with images of the now comfortably defeated yet still exotic Soviet one, that we'll be looking longingly at places like Romania and elsewhere, which still allow us, errantly or not, to believe in the idea that America triumphs. Just something to think about while you're eating that black bread and loving it.
Na Zdorovia (or however you'd transliterate it).
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