Who has the best food?

[Irish_Melkite]

Probably for the same reason you aren’t trumpeting Mulligatawny Stew, colcannon, or boxty cakes.

Were it not an Eastern forum, I’d as likely trumpet boxty cakes and colcannon - …

but Mulligatawney Stew could well be trumpeted here and might be familiar to our Syro-Malabarese poster, as its origins are Indian, brought to Britain by those of its citizens posted there in the days of the Empire. It’s not an Irish dish.

You are perhaps thinking of Mulligan Stew - a dish that, in its ingredients, chiefly ground and root vegetables combined with whatever meat could be scrounged - certainly resembles a hearth-cooked meal from rural Ireland. It, however, at least in that styling, is a hobo dish of American origin.

Many years,

Neil

 

[Woodstock]

Being unfamiliar with any food from the UK outside baked beans with breakfast, I was thinking of my local pub’s fare.

 

[johnnykins]

Since I moved it to its own thread, you can discuss any place with good chocolate.

And where - Exactly - does one find BAD chocolate!!?? It is an oxymoron.

 

[dessert]

Since I moved it to its own thread, you can discuss any place with good chocolate.

Just double dip those cookies twice or thrice.

 

[Fuerza]

Amen!
Being a Creole/Sicilian/Islenos, I don’t think I could survive anywhere else but my dear Louisiana.

Now as much as I love lebanese (and I mean absolutely love); having a good, homecooked Italian meal noon on a Sunday leaves everything else in the dust (well, almost everything). What else can explain St. Peter moving from Antioch to Rome? Had to be the food

It’s pretty neat to hear from an Isleño. I did a presentation on the Isleño dialect of Spanish (which is sadly slowly dying out) during grad school. On that note, being Sicilian/Neapolitan/Spanish myself, I can assure you that you’d survive quite well in the NYC Metro area, especially my Staten Island. We have every type of food in the world.

 

[Fuerza]

Food is such a part of our culture that I cannot seperate it from HMC. My parish serves fresh hot beignets and cafe au lait after Mass on Sundays.

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The KCs have BBQ chicken off and on during the year. Or jambalaya. Gumbo during Lent. How about that Sicilian St. Joseph’s Day altar during the middle of Lent. (The stuffed artichokes and cookies are to die for).

Don’t get me wrong…I love Lebanese and Greek food (as do a whole bunch of us down here in south Louisiana given the number of restaurants). But, the parish does Cajun/Creole mostly.

I am diabetic so I can’t partake of the sweets but I can’t resist those almond or **fig cookies that the Sicilians make **for the St. Joseph Altar either.

In that case you’d probably go into a diabetic coma and die from the fig cookies (i cucchiteddi) that my family makes during the holidays, but there’s no better way to go out.

 

[Aramis]

For me, the best food is a toss up…

The Roman-Rite Poles in Wyandotte throw a really good repast… we ate leftovers all week after my grandfather’s funeral. And it was all incredibly good.

On the other hand, the ecclectic multi-ethnic parish is another great way to go. Best of all worlds.

 

[Woodstock]

The best food I’ve ever had was from Filipinos. Next was from Chaldeans. Following from Thai. They’re all eastern, right?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Sorry, but that coffee looks entirely too delicious for our Melkite coffee-hour. We may live in Seattle, but only the bitterest, blackest coffee will do after Divine Liturgy. It may stick to your throat, but it’s great for dipping sweet bread into.

Peace and God bless!

Uh, Ghosty: I hate to tell you this, but that coffee is obviously from the Cafe Du Monde, meaning that it’s “Cafe au lait”, N.O. style, meaning that the coffee is as strong as boars’ breath and has beaucoup chicory in it. If you drank that without cream and sugar, it would make you THINK bitterest and blackest!

Jimmy: I don’t doubt that all of you Easterners have better food after liturgies. But octopus in ink? I don’t know about that one, man.

I’m a dull old Latin, and live in the dull old southern piedmont. So our dishes aren’t all that interesting. But you know, when the local K of C does a pig roast over a hickory fire, it’s pretty hard to think those Eastern dishes, which I am sure are delicious, beat it by very much.

Now, as to desserts, we just don’t know how to make them at all, really. But my ethnic German wife can make a Sachertorte mit Schlag that will give you diabetes with the first bite!

But in my mountains, we do know berries, and I’ll put my carmelized fresh blackberry pie up against you Bayou Tigers’ begnets anytime you want. (Wait! I’m not supposed to be fighting the Latins, am I?) I’ll put it up against you Easterners’ baclava anytime you want!

 

[dessert]

The best food I’ve ever had was from Filipinos. Next was from Chaldeans. Following from Thai. They’re all eastern, right?

We have been to a Thai restaraunt in Madison but it is closed now, and we have one here. It is good and you can get spicy or extra spicy.

I like to add cumin into chicken dishes.

Our natural food store has many spices from lots of different countries, there are so many different cinnamons.

 

[mardukm]

The best food I’ve ever had was from Filipinos. Next was from Chaldeans. Following from Thai. They’re all eastern, right?

I have certainly gained a few pounds since I married my Filipina wife.

I wonder if anyone ever converted or translated because of the food.

Blessings

 

[Ghosty]

Ghosty,

You should be ashamed. While your love of our foods is indeed heartwarming, why aren’t you trumpeting boeregs, lahmajean, string cheese, choreg, sarma, and your own versions of many of those above?

Because I’ve never had them after an Armenian Liturgy, and I thought this was a religious thread.

Now that you mention it, though, a nice cold glass of tahn would be wonderful about now.

 

[Irish_Melkite]

Jimmy: I don’t doubt that all of you Easterners have better food after liturgies. But octopus in ink? I don’t know about that one, man.!

RR,

Where did you see Jimmy suggesting that?

Many years,

Neil

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

For me, the best food is a toss up…

The Roman-Rite Poles in Wyandotte throw a really good repast… we ate leftovers all week after my grandfather’s funeral. And it was all incredibly good.

On the other hand, the ecclectic multi-ethnic parish is another great way to go. Best of all worlds.

man… I had an incredibly wicked idea to start going to Weekday Mass in order to befriend little old ladies who can cook all that delicious ethnic food. If I didn’t have to work and party…

Maybe I’ll just have to crash a funeral or two…

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

I have certainly gained a few pounds since I married my Filipina wife.

I wonder if anyone ever converted or translated because of the food.

Blessings

Just read your post…

But I do know many who have married because of food. Well, part of the reason anyway.

 

[Aramis]

man… I had an incredibly wicked idea to start going to Weekday Mass in order to befriend little old ladies who can cook all that delicious ethnic food. If I didn’t have to work and party…

Maybe I’ll just have to crash a funeral or two…

It was good being a Deacon’s son when he was assigned to Holy Family Cathedral, Anchorage… I got to tag along to all those baptismal and wedding receptions. LOADS of Ethnic foods… Polish, Russian, Yupiq, Inupiaq, Filipino, Mexicano, and more.

St. Nicholas, the Byzantine parish, is multi-ethnic as well…

 

[Ridgerunner]

RR,

Where did you see Jimmy suggesting that?

Many years,

Neil

He didn’t. The Easterners are so clearly beating us Latins in this food fight that I had to say SOMETHING to try and even the score!

 

[Amadeus]

The best food I’ve ever had was from Filipinos. Next was from Chaldeans. Following from Thai. They’re all eastern, right?

I have certainly gained a few pounds since I married my Filipina wife.

I wonder if anyone ever converted or translated because of the food.

Blessings

Amen, amen, amen!

Yep, Filipinos are Orientals but Latins!

But what you both have tasted might just be the tip of the iceberg!

Balut, penoy, kilawin, at iba pa, anyone?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Amen, amen, amen!

Yep, Filipinos are Orientals but Latins!

That’s right, they are! Hooray for the recipes of the Filipinos and Filipinas! Score for the Latins!

I sure hope my daughter’s Chaldean mother-in-law never sees this. She’s pretty proud of her cooking, and rightly so. My daughter has learned to make quite a number of those Eastern dishes, the names of which I can never remember. But I can’t admit they’re good in this struggle. So I won’t.

Now, nobody has brought up the Vietnamese here. I believe they’re Latin Orientals too. Some of their stuff is beyond good!
They have a big religious/ethnic “Marian Days” get together not far from here every year, and thousands come from all over the U.S. Vietnamese food is a big thing at those celebrations.

Okay, here’s my one “on topic” contribution besides the K of C pig roast. My father’s family is Irish, from County Leix and County Mayo. A custom of the County Mayo group, which has been kept in the family, is the meal before Midnight Mass. Eaten early (though the old four-hour fast requirement is no longer in force) it is a kind of soup made from potatoes, oysters, scallops and (strange to tell) soda crackers. Since County Mayo is on the sea, (“the first parish east of Boston, as they used to say”) I have long wondered whether that’s a custom shared by other shoreline Irish.

 

[yeshua]

As for Latin Vs. Eastern/Oriental:

What would you choose, coffee and donuts or ma’mool and cardamon tea?

Come on, my brothers, this is a non-issue!

As for Eastern Vs. Oriental:

I had the pleasure of attending a Greek Easter last year, a wonderful experience, though I will take my kibbe nayieh over goats brains any day (sorry Byzantines)!

Much love!