Re: CHAT: cross-culturation

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:41:10 -0800 Weiben Wang <weibenw@...> writes:
> The local Ukrainian eateries (in New York City), and
> Polish too IIRC, serve challah, and there's no reason
> they couldn't put ham and cheese on it.  Perhaps it's
> an Eastern European thing turned Ashkenazi?
> I just checked with our friendly neighborhood
> Ukrainian co-worker who confirmed that challah is
> quite an ordinary thing among non-Jewish Ukrainians,
> often eaten around Chrismastime.  He wasn't sure if it
> was a Jewish thing turned Ukrainian, or vice versa.
> -Weiben
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I don't know 100%, but i'm pretty sure that hhalah is a pan-Jewish food
(waitasec, doesn't "pan" mean 'bread' in Spanish? :-) )... i can try and
make sure by asking my non-Ashkenazic friends.
«««asking»»»
it seems to be pan-Jewish, not distinctively Ashkenazic.  like
tsholent/hhamin.
although my informant made the comment "it's [just] bread :-)" which
brings up another issue... wouldn't it be expected that any bread made of
wheat would be pretty much the same?  so Jewish hhalah and Ukrainian
hhalah-like bread could just be similar by accident.
note:  i don't know very much about baking bread


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...find - glory; beyond the cheap colored lights
  one song - before the sun sets
  glory - on another empty life..."          ~ _rent_

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