Meaning of kreplekh | Babel Free

Examples

““Only Russian Cafe in St. Louis / My Grandma’s recipes for Borsht, Piroshki, Kreplekh, and home made pastries.” Ibids […] only / Russian Cafe / in St. Louis […] Borsht - Piroshki - Kreplekh”

“Daniel was pacing in front of the stove. Mama was rolling out dough for kreplekh, trying to ignore him.”

“There should be dairy dishes, cheese kreplekh. Secular Jews like fine food just as much as religious Jews.”

“The extrusive details scattered throughout the book without comment about material goods, clothes, places, and the like are valuable precisely because they are unremarked: their unquestioned acceptance by the reader (or more precisely the reader’s presumed unquestioned acceptance on the writer’s part) may suggest these items’ circulation within social discourse.⁵³”

““The stories remind us of the wide range of dairy dishes,” [Ben] Katchor writes. “The potato knishes, the milkhiker borscht, the cheese kreplekh, the varnishkes, the pirogen, blintzes, buttermilk, and for dessert pudding and poppy cakes — the food of a Jew’s pastoral dream.””

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