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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 22, 2020, 07:00:19 pm ---I'm sure they all taste good.
But here, there's more or less only one way to cook them.
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Oh, I thought you meant your impression was there's only one way to cook them, not just that there's only one way people cook them in Sweden.
Multi-generation Americans must have a lot of those things -- ingredients they cook only one way. Or did, at least, before the growth of Latin American, Middle Eastern, African and Asian restaurants. Though of course, people whose parents came from another country probably ate those all along.
The other day I interviewed a woman whose mother was from the Philippines and was renowned for her cooking of Filipino cuisine. Oone thing her mother made her boyfriends particularly liked was a dish one of them called "mud." It combines pork and ox blood.
Whereas multi-generational American families cook our ox blood only one way. Which is, we don't.
There's only one Filipino restaurant near me, but I don't believe they have mud on the menu.
I just noticed that in two consecutive posts I referred to two delicious foods called mud.
--- Quote from: Sason on December 22, 2020, 07:00:19 pm ---However not in my family since none of my parents grew up in Sweden.
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Where was your folks from?
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 23, 2020, 11:22:18 am ---
Where was your folks from?
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Parents from Germany and Denmark.
Grandparents from Poland/Ukraina/Russia/Germany/Denmark.
Like most Jewish families it's a multinational mixture just one or two generations back.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 23, 2020, 02:32:58 pm ---Parents from Germany and Denmark.
Grandparents from Poland/Ukraina/Russia/Germany/Denmark.
Like most Jewish families it's a multinational mixture just one or two generations back.
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Nice! I think even my great-grandparents were all born in the United States. So I don't really know my family's country(ies) of origin. Based on our names and the SPF of our sunscreen, I'm guessing it was some combination of Ireland, England and Scotland.
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 24, 2020, 02:32:29 pm ---
Nice! I think even my great-grandparents were all born in the United States. So I don't really know my family's country(ies) of origin. Based on our names and the SPF of our sunscreen, I'm guessing it was some combination of Ireland, England and Scotland.
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:laugh:
That's an inventive way to do genealogy!
Jeff Wrangler:
I believe a sign that winter is coming (and, of course, the Winter Solstice). I was at my father's place for the weekend. Last evening I briefly stepped out on the front porch. The sky was very clear. The moon is coming on last quarter, but it was still so bright you could have picked up a pin. I looked to the southern sky, and just dimly I could make out the belt of Orion.
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