Food in THE TASTE OF YIDDISH (1970)

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THE TASTE OF YIDDISH
by Lillian Mermin Feinsilver
South Brunswick, NJ:  Thomas Yoseloff
1970

   This is a book on Yiddish, not a book on food, but the OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF AMERICAN FOOD should take note.  OED cites from it 29 times.  It's OED
first cite for "schmatte" (this is not good).
    The book mainly is New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, but there are
some surprising things missing.  "Beygel" and "schmear" are here, but I
didn't see "bagel mit schmear."  The "whole schmear" and the "whole megillah"
are here, but not the "whole nine yards."  "Rugelach" is not here. "Jewish
penicillin" is not here.   "Go figure" is not here.  Go figure.

Pp. 54-55:  THE YIDDISH TAM...TASTE.
(Chapter and section heads--ed.)

Pg. 75:  Lit., Don't mix KASHE with BORCHT.

Pg. 149:  ...EPPES ESSEN...

Pg. 172:  FOOD AND DRINK.
(Section title.  The longest entries follow--ed.)
Pg. 175:  BEYGEL.
Pg. 178:  BLINTZES.
Pg. 179:  BORSHT.
Pg. 184:  FRESSER
Pg. 186:  GEFILTE FISH.
Pg. 190:  KISHKE.
Pg. 192:  KREPLACH...KUGEL.
Pg. 198:  SHTRUDEL.
Pg. 199:  TAM.
Pg. 201:  TSIMMES.
Pg. 202:  ZUP..

Pg. 224:  AFIKEYMEN.

Pp. 242-243:  KASHRES.

Pp. 260-261:  SEYDER.

Pg. 282:  LOKSH (derisive)  An Italian.  The word means "noodle"...

Pg. 299:  BAGEL.

Pg. 303:  "DAIRY" FOR "DAIRY PRODUCTS"..."DANISH" FOR "DANISH PASTRY".

Pg. 314:  HOW SWEET IT IS!...OY, IZ DOS ZIS!

Pg. 322:  KOSHER; NOT SO KOSHER.

Pg. 323:  MATZO, MATZOH.

Pg. 328:  NOSH.

Pg. 333:  SHMALTZ, SCHMATLZ, SCHMALZ, ETC.

Pg. 334:  "Everything that's happening in New York is in that play...the
whole schmear..."
(Review from February 1969--ed.)

Pg. 342:  THE APPLE DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE....DER EPL FALT NIT VAYT
FUN BEYM.

Pg. 357:  A WHOLE MEGILLE...BIALYS...BLINTZKRIEG.

Pg. 358:  BORSHT BELT...BORSHT CIRCUIT.

Pg. 359:  CHEAP LIKE BORSHT.

Pg. 360:  "FA'MISHT" FOR "FAMISHED"...Al Capp used this pun in _Li'l Abner_:
"Breeng Food; I am Fameeshed."

Pg. 365:  NOT TO KNOW BORSHT.

Pg. 366:  OH, BORSHT!

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