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Ah Chef Mista Witchy dat cookin tiddey...
We haff:
ackees an saltfish
fry roast breadfruit
callaloo (cook wid a likkle cream an nutmeg and ting)
frynapple (fry pineapple - mek ee soooo sweet to caramelize ie)
Witchy's own home-roasted home-ground yergacheffe coffee (every sweetner known pan dis yah planet, half-n-half, milk, and tin sweeten condense milk)
Trung Nguyen Legendee Vietnamese coffee served in the traditional Vietnamese style (brewed in a phin and served with the Vietnamese brand Longevity sweetened condensed milk)
Fruit Punch (a punch bowl with Appletons rums and a punch bowl with Virgin punch)
So... Come rope een. Siddung. Enjoy wi food and chat.
Nuh mine di foreign-lookin dinin room... is Russian. Di white an cream ceiling, di dark red wall dem, di cream trim and lower wall panels, di gold keywurk and chair rail and di gold detailin - all very Russian. Dat brass samovar come ova wid me grandmother and har two sister dem.
It and di odder damovar - di silver wan - was all dem cyarry ova besides di clothes pan dem back dem and wan small trunk of clothing. Dey was di last survivor dem of ah pogram, dem hide inna di wood dem and watch dem parent dem and dem hole fambily murder by di Cossack dem. Dem Cossack dem neva see dese chree likkle gyl dem inna di tree dem. Mi great-aunt Molly was den 'bout 17, my grandmumma, Fannie, was 'bout 16, and me great-aunt Saidie was den 'bout 13... dere was two pickney - wan gyal an wan bwoy - between Aunt Saidie and Bubba (Fannie), but de Cossack dem murda dose pickney dem. Mi faddah oldest cousin - Aunt Molly oldest son - has di silver samovar. Mi haff di brass samovar, as mi faddah is Fannie's elder bwoy and mi is him eldest child. Dat samovar (and di silver wan) was di ongle ting dem of value dat dem sista dem could cyarry wid dem to dere new home in 'Merica. Dem nat kno wan soul in 'Merica wen dem hop pan wan boat to come yahso... All dem dem know is dat em cyaan stay inna Russia and survive henny more, an dem waan live, and at dat time was easier fi'get into 'Merica fi'Russian Jews fleein di Pogrom dem den was to get into Canada, and dem cudda gone to Europe easier but dem nuh trust Europe eeder... an was a good ting dem nuh trust Europe (tink 'bout Hitler ongle a few decade dem layta)... So dem sell off everyting dem haff 'cept fi' dem samovar dem, and dem get pan dere boat and dem come to 'Merica. Dere boat mek land at Philadelphia - not at New York - so dem end up inna Philadelphia. Wasn't dere plan, but dem was in 'Merica, safe, and Immigration let dem in - aldow de awffica cyaan spell dem nyame dem, so dem haffi tek di 'new 'Merican name' dat him gi'dem... shrug Dey inna 'Merica now, so dey take 'Merican name. dwl Laka "Kahn" ah 'Merican nyame. *rolleyes* "Kahzsjchan" is 'bout di closest mi can spell di original nyame inna Henglish letter dem. Hennybaddi whe know Russian wi'get di rite sound off di nyame. Hit sound most laka sneeze. dwl Dem nat kno wan word of Henglish - ah ongle Yiddish and a likkle Russian. Dem get job dem inna sewing factory - 18 hour-day job dem... but hit work. And alla dem work. Even Aunt Saidie, at 13 years old. Nubaddi haff time fi'school. Dem larn henglish on di job. Dem sleep pan bed dem fi' 'bout 5 or 6 hour dem dat dem share wid odder oomen dem juss laka dem inna wan factory-owned tenement. Juss room dem fill-up wid bunk bed dem stack four high, and dere alwey fill wid sleepin oomen dem while odder oomen workin. Di odder few hour dem of de day, dem haffi wash dem clothes dem and cook an eat. Aunt Molly meet ah man who want wife, shi marry mi Uncle (who passed befare mi bawn)... Aunt Molly live 'til 1977. Mi Aunt Saidie meet wan truck driva, mi Uncle Izzie, and shi pass in 1977 - juss afta har sista - and him nuh pass 'til 1998. Uncle Izzy smoke ah dozen Phillie cigar dem ah day, but him live to be 99 year old, mi tink him was... dwl Bubba meet Zaida (mi granpappa, Ben) who want wan wife, so dem marry wen dem very very young - Bubba was juss 18 an Zaida was juss 20, and sadly, mi Zaida pass away very young, too, in 1970... I was ongly 9 years old... and Bubba (Fanny) live 'til 1978... I was 18 and just about to graduate from high school... too bad shi miss mi graduation.
So dat is why dat ole samovar tek di playce of honor pan mi sideboard. It have [strikeout]seven[/strikeout] nine medallion dem pan ee - see dem all?
We haff:
ackees an saltfish
fry roast breadfruit
callaloo (cook wid a likkle cream an nutmeg and ting)
frynapple (fry pineapple - mek ee soooo sweet to caramelize ie)
Witchy's own home-roasted home-ground yergacheffe coffee (every sweetner known pan dis yah planet, half-n-half, milk, and tin sweeten condense milk)
Trung Nguyen Legendee Vietnamese coffee served in the traditional Vietnamese style (brewed in a phin and served with the Vietnamese brand Longevity sweetened condensed milk)
Fruit Punch (a punch bowl with Appletons rums and a punch bowl with Virgin punch)
So... Come rope een. Siddung. Enjoy wi food and chat.
Nuh mine di foreign-lookin dinin room... is Russian. Di white an cream ceiling, di dark red wall dem, di cream trim and lower wall panels, di gold keywurk and chair rail and di gold detailin - all very Russian. Dat brass samovar come ova wid me grandmother and har two sister dem.
It and di odder damovar - di silver wan - was all dem cyarry ova besides di clothes pan dem back dem and wan small trunk of clothing. Dey was di last survivor dem of ah pogram, dem hide inna di wood dem and watch dem parent dem and dem hole fambily murder by di Cossack dem. Dem Cossack dem neva see dese chree likkle gyl dem inna di tree dem. Mi great-aunt Molly was den 'bout 17, my grandmumma, Fannie, was 'bout 16, and me great-aunt Saidie was den 'bout 13... dere was two pickney - wan gyal an wan bwoy - between Aunt Saidie and Bubba (Fannie), but de Cossack dem murda dose pickney dem. Mi faddah oldest cousin - Aunt Molly oldest son - has di silver samovar. Mi haff di brass samovar, as mi faddah is Fannie's elder bwoy and mi is him eldest child. Dat samovar (and di silver wan) was di ongle ting dem of value dat dem sista dem could cyarry wid dem to dere new home in 'Merica. Dem nat kno wan soul in 'Merica wen dem hop pan wan boat to come yahso... All dem dem know is dat em cyaan stay inna Russia and survive henny more, an dem waan live, and at dat time was easier fi'get into 'Merica fi'Russian Jews fleein di Pogrom dem den was to get into Canada, and dem cudda gone to Europe easier but dem nuh trust Europe eeder... an was a good ting dem nuh trust Europe (tink 'bout Hitler ongle a few decade dem layta)... So dem sell off everyting dem haff 'cept fi' dem samovar dem, and dem get pan dere boat and dem come to 'Merica. Dere boat mek land at Philadelphia - not at New York - so dem end up inna Philadelphia. Wasn't dere plan, but dem was in 'Merica, safe, and Immigration let dem in - aldow de awffica cyaan spell dem nyame dem, so dem haffi tek di 'new 'Merican name' dat him gi'dem... shrug Dey inna 'Merica now, so dey take 'Merican name. dwl Laka "Kahn" ah 'Merican nyame. *rolleyes* "Kahzsjchan" is 'bout di closest mi can spell di original nyame inna Henglish letter dem. Hennybaddi whe know Russian wi'get di rite sound off di nyame. Hit sound most laka sneeze. dwl Dem nat kno wan word of Henglish - ah ongle Yiddish and a likkle Russian. Dem get job dem inna sewing factory - 18 hour-day job dem... but hit work. And alla dem work. Even Aunt Saidie, at 13 years old. Nubaddi haff time fi'school. Dem larn henglish on di job. Dem sleep pan bed dem fi' 'bout 5 or 6 hour dem dat dem share wid odder oomen dem juss laka dem inna wan factory-owned tenement. Juss room dem fill-up wid bunk bed dem stack four high, and dere alwey fill wid sleepin oomen dem while odder oomen workin. Di odder few hour dem of de day, dem haffi wash dem clothes dem and cook an eat. Aunt Molly meet ah man who want wife, shi marry mi Uncle (who passed befare mi bawn)... Aunt Molly live 'til 1977. Mi Aunt Saidie meet wan truck driva, mi Uncle Izzie, and shi pass in 1977 - juss afta har sista - and him nuh pass 'til 1998. Uncle Izzy smoke ah dozen Phillie cigar dem ah day, but him live to be 99 year old, mi tink him was... dwl Bubba meet Zaida (mi granpappa, Ben) who want wan wife, so dem marry wen dem very very young - Bubba was juss 18 an Zaida was juss 20, and sadly, mi Zaida pass away very young, too, in 1970... I was ongly 9 years old... and Bubba (Fanny) live 'til 1978... I was 18 and just about to graduate from high school... too bad shi miss mi graduation.
So dat is why dat ole samovar tek di playce of honor pan mi sideboard. It have [strikeout]seven[/strikeout] nine medallion dem pan ee - see dem all?
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