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...city's restaurants make up for that. True to Rumania's Latin inheritance, they offer ciorba (a minestrone with sour cream) and mititei (diminutive salami as garlic-laden as any in "Little Italy"). A bow to the West takes in mamaliga-cornmeal porridge that resembles Russian kasha-which is often accompanied by sarmale, stuffed cabbage Hungarian-style. Unlike most Latins, Rumanians are not great winebibbers. Their national drink, tuicā, is as clear and catastrophic as Yugoslav slivovitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: The Third Communism | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Singer characterizes his complex philosophy as "a kasha of mysticism, deism, and rationalism." Its sources are the Ten Commandments, Hume, Luria, the cabala, Sir Oliver Lodge, and William Crooks. His commitment to it, like his belief in demons, is total, if mildly ironic...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Isaac Bashevis Singer | 5/2/1962 | See Source »

...KASHA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet embassy in London to help Mrs. Pearce prepare such delicacies as borsch and kasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Red Rowers | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...unsuspecting neighbors while the neighbors look for Flying Saucers. However, with food as costly as it is, other observers doubt that anything except a Thudwunk would throw noodles. One possibly significant variation on this story came from Nanking, where a Thudwunk was observed throwing beef Stroganoff followed by kasha à la Gourieff. This has led inflammatory elements of the Chinese press to suggest that Thudwunks are the creation of a certain foreign power. The Chinese Air Force is alerted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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