All you need is a potato: The culinary performances of Grushenka Abramova

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Notes

1. Schaechter 2005, xvii. The synonyms listed are bulbe, bulve, bilve, kartofl(ye), kartoplye, erdepl, ekhpl, riblekh, barbulyes, zhemikes, mandeberkes, banderkes, and krumpirn, plus a tantalizing “etc.”

2. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1978; see also 1974, and 1975.

3. Kishinevsky 2001.

4. The language of this region is south-eastern Yiddish, popularly but misleadingly known as “Ukrainian Yiddish.” See Herzog, Baviskar, and Weinreich 1992.

5. Nakhimovsky 2006.

6. The Babyloian Talmud presents the controversies concerning udder preparation in Hulin 109b and 110a. See Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1987.

7. Hyman 1995.

8. Voronina 1994, 167; cited in Remennick 2001.

9. Similar patterns exist in other immigrant communities. See, for instance, Ray, 2004.

10. Okere 1983. See also Visser 1991, 276.

11. McIntosh and Zey 1989, 328.

12. McIntosh and Zey, 1989, 326.

13. Gold 1997, 267.

14. Marcus 1993.

15. Shternshis 2006, 3–4.

16. Ibid., xiii.

17. Shternshis 2001. The university press that ultimately published this dissertation (see Shternshis 2006, cited in the previous note) deleted this recipe, vital though it is to the topic, from the book, along with all other food-related data.

18. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1990, 80. The overt combination of milk (rather than butter or cheese) and meat is another example.