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Did you guys see the NYT’s article about Kevin Cross’s home dec in the basement of a building in the Village? Look carefully at the photos. He has a SILVER BUCKET under the boiler overflow valve. Dying.
In the popular perception, Litvaks were considered to be more intellectual and stoic than their rivals, the Galitzianers, who thought of them as cold fish.
They, in turn, disdained Galitzianers as irrational and uneducated. Ira Steingroot’s “Yiddish Knowledge Cards” devote a card to this “Ashkenazi version of the Hatfields and McCoys.”[5] This difference is of course connected with the Hasidic/mitnagged debate, Hasidism being considered the more emotional and spontaneous form of religious expression.
The two groups differed not only in their attitudes and their pronunciation, but also in their cuisine. The Galitzianers were known for rich, heavily sweetened dishes in contrast to the plainer, more savory Litvisher versions, with the boundary known as the “Gefilte Fish Line.”[6]
Tell us, DH, which HOTD would it be? And are you going to stucco up the brownstone exterior and paint it salmon pink? I bet you’re going to put track lighting right through the ceiling medallions, too.
Savory? I think that makes you a HoHoHoLitvak, cobble. Sweet would make you a HoHoHoGalitzianer. (Or do I have that backwards? But I think I’m right.) Are you following this, or do we need to revoke the honor?
Did you guys see the NYT’s article about Kevin Cross’s home dec in the basement of a building in the Village? Look carefully at the photos. He has a SILVER BUCKET under the boiler overflow valve. Dying.
Si, Slopey! HoHoHo Litvak, and a cold fish, too!! LOL!!
From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews
In the popular perception, Litvaks were considered to be more intellectual and stoic than their rivals, the Galitzianers, who thought of them as cold fish.
They, in turn, disdained Galitzianers as irrational and uneducated. Ira Steingroot’s “Yiddish Knowledge Cards” devote a card to this “Ashkenazi version of the Hatfields and McCoys.”[5] This difference is of course connected with the Hasidic/mitnagged debate, Hasidism being considered the more emotional and spontaneous form of religious expression.
The two groups differed not only in their attitudes and their pronunciation, but also in their cuisine. The Galitzianers were known for rich, heavily sweetened dishes in contrast to the plainer, more savory Litvisher versions, with the boundary known as the “Gefilte Fish Line.”[6]
I got a really strange email last night from someone calling themselves Babs Corcoran and then the message:
“My Name Is Inigo Montoya…I mean Minard Lafever…I mean Sam ”
Anyone have any ideas before I report it?
Tell us, DH, which HOTD would it be? And are you going to stucco up the brownstone exterior and paint it salmon pink? I bet you’re going to put track lighting right through the ceiling medallions, too.
DH, I’d be giving you an award if you did that! I played my ticket for tonight. Come on mega…Snappy needs a Greenwood Heights frame house!
i’d totally buy the nicest HOTD in recent memory and gut that suckah and turn it into a loft with quadruple height ceilings!
AND make a blog about it so you can all cry!!! 😉
“They have to know the secret password when they arrive at the front door.”
secret passwords: “you don’t look like your pics on your profile”
morning all!
i’d like some mega millions plz
Savory? I think that makes you a HoHoHoLitvak, cobble. Sweet would make you a HoHoHoGalitzianer. (Or do I have that backwards? But I think I’m right.) Are you following this, or do we need to revoke the honor?