Comments on: Yiddish in the Kitchen http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yiddish-in-the-kitchen Food and Recipes From the Heart of Israel Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:39:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Devo K http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Devo K Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:46:18 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-769 Baruch Hashem I had the Zechus to have a great-grandmother until I was almost 16 and she pretty much only spoke Yiddish. Plus both my father's parents were Yiddish speakers so while I'm certainly nowhere near fluent, Yiddish is certainly in my every day discussion... point in fact - when talking to my son, I'm just as likely to ask him if he wants to go schluff as I am if he wants to go sleep, patch his hentelach or clap his hands or put the hat on his keppie (head). I KNOW I should be using the Hebrew words instead if I'm going to speak a language other than English, but 20mumble years of habit is really hard to break LOL. Baruch Hashem I had the Zechus to have a great-grandmother until I was almost 16 and she pretty much only spoke Yiddish. Plus both my father’s parents were Yiddish speakers so while I’m certainly nowhere near fluent, Yiddish is certainly in my every day discussion… point in fact – when talking to my son, I’m just as likely to ask him if he wants to go schluff as I am if he wants to go sleep, patch his hentelach or clap his hands or put the hat on his keppie (head).

I KNOW I should be using the Hebrew words instead if I’m going to speak a language other than English, but 20mumble years of habit is really hard to break LOL.

]]> By: mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-781 mimi54 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:42:07 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-781 Devo, How cute...sounds like you grew up with a lot more kitchen Yiddish than I did! Devo,

How cute…sounds like you grew up with a lot more kitchen Yiddish than I did!

]]> By: Devo K http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Devo K Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:36 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-780 We had shissles of applesauce on Pesach... the chainik kept the water hot on Shabbat and the.. shmitchik to peel the veggies... (actually that was generally the word we used when we couldn't remember the word for whatever we were pointing to). We had shissles of applesauce on Pesach… the chainik kept the water hot on Shabbat and the.. shmitchik to peel the veggies… (actually that was generally the word we used when we couldn’t remember the word for whatever we were pointing to).

]]> By: Mrs. S. http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Mrs. S. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:53:32 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-779 :-) I'm not sure why this is true - maybe it's because there are so few ingredients (6 to be exact) that the texture really makes a difference? - but, IMHO, hand-grated potato kugel tastes SO much better than potato kugel made with a food processor. :-)

I’m not sure why this is true – maybe it’s because there are so few ingredients (6 to be exact) that the texture really makes a difference? – but, IMHO, hand-grated potato kugel tastes SO much better than potato kugel made with a food processor.

]]> By: mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-778 mimi54 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:33:12 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-778 Hi, Johanna, Yes, "shlook" sounds more like the real thing, as compared to the dry "chug." Anyway, chug is what locomotives do, isn't it? A favorite non-kitchen Yiddishism that seems to have crept into the general vocabulary is chutzpah, meaning brassy self-assertion or downright rudeness. It comes from the Hebrew "chutz" - that which is outward. Instead of the refined way, which is to keep a certain reserve, having chutzpah means taking out and exposing one's inner...um, unpleasantness. That's a helluva chutzpah, ya know what I mean? Hi, Johanna,

Yes, “shlook” sounds more like the real thing, as compared to the dry “chug.” Anyway, chug is what locomotives do, isn’t it?

A favorite non-kitchen Yiddishism that seems to have crept into the general vocabulary is chutzpah, meaning brassy self-assertion or downright rudeness. It comes from the Hebrew “chutz” – that which is outward. Instead of the refined way, which is to keep a certain reserve, having chutzpah means taking out and exposing one’s inner…um, unpleasantness.

That’s a helluva chutzpah, ya know what I mean?

]]> By: mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-777 mimi54 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:26:30 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-777 I never properly learned to speak Yiddish, I just heard it in the house all the time. Some things just stick, though. Like I seldom use a basin, but I'll use a shissel all the time. You don't like your food processor, efsher? :) I never properly learned to speak Yiddish, I just heard it in the house all the time. Some things just stick, though. Like I seldom use a basin, but I’ll use a shissel all the time.

You don’t like your food processor, efsher? :)

]]> By: mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-776 mimi54 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:14:34 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-776 Leora, all my childhood years I thought that <em>polkie</em> was English for chicken drumstick. And I don't even speak Yiddish, I just heard it around the house all the time. Leora, all my childhood years I thought that polkie was English for chicken drumstick. And I don’t even speak Yiddish, I just heard it around the house all the time.

]]> By: mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-775 mimi54 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:12:49 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-775 Hi, Daniela, can you tell me more about this book? Sounds interesting. Hi, Daniela, can you tell me more about this book? Sounds interesting.

]]> By: Johanna http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Johanna Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:31:34 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-774 fascinating stuff - love hearing about your idioms - maybe I could incorporate some into my conversation - shlook is great onomatapeia fascinating stuff – love hearing about your idioms – maybe I could incorporate some into my conversation – shlook is great onomatapeia

]]> By: Mrs. S. http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/yiddish-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Mrs. S. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:00:43 +0000 http://mimi54.wordpress.com/?p=1861#comment-773 When anyone in my family makes potato kugel, we never use anything but a <i>reebaizen</i> - i.e. an old-fashioned so-called "safety grater". When anyone in my family makes potato kugel, we never use anything but a reebaizen – i.e. an old-fashioned so-called “safety grater”.

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