Jan 09 2009
Ethnic Foods
Every culture and region has their own food and recipes. There are so many different types of foods that it would take volumes to write about them all. Most people closely identify with the type of food that they grew up with.
With my Polish background, we surprisingly didn’t have a whole lot of Polish foods growing up. We’d have keilbasa and potatoes (boiled) often. We’d have peirogis on ocassion. On Christmas Eve, we’d go to my father’s cousin’s house where we would have most of the Polish food of the year.
One year, for my father’s birthday, I went to a seedy club to get him stuffed cabbage. I won’t even attempt to try to spell the Polish word for that because I don’t want to embarass myself. My father’s birthday happens to be in August and it was a scorcher that day. On my way home, I got stuck in traffic from a bridge that was up for a tanker to go through. I had no AC in my car and I swear it smelled like cabbage for a year.
But, most of the food from when I was young, was more Portugese. The area where I live is mainly Portugese. I think I identify with that cuisine even more than the Polish food. Chourico and linguica are staples in my house.
There’s nothing better than ground linguica on pizza. I even converted my Irish husband to where it’s his favorite pizza too. Actually, the restaurant where we used to go just for the pizza was recently knocked down but it has been closed for years.
Food cuisine is more of a nurture thing than a nature thing. I’m really letting the biology side of me show.
