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the house, she had enough food to feed them."
Rochelle Sable of West Bloomfield is originally from
Poland. A Holocaust survivor and speaker at the
Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield,
lch gedenk. If you're not versed in all things
Rochelle moved to Costa Rica after the war and came
Yiddish, it means, "I remember." And few things
to the United States in 1948. She remembers her
bring back memories like food with tam (flavor).
mother's cooking fondly.
Talk to people about the foods their mothers
"My mother was an extremely good
made and they're taken on a sentimental
cook without recipes. She made from
Rochelle Sable makes
journey every time. Even those who know
stuffed cabbage
nothing something. When she moved to
little Yiddish bring up the names of foods
Costa Rica she never adopted cooking the
in the accents from the old country.
beans and rice of Central America. She
Buckwheat groats with bow-tie noodles just
would use local ingredients in her Jewish cooking. She
doesn't conjure up the same feelings as kasha mit var-
put chayote (small green squash that looks like a pear)
nishkes. And stuffed cabbage never tastes quite the same
and sweet potatoes in her chicken soup. I still do that.
as gevilkolte kroit.
"She had an open house for people. Everybody my
° Helen Goldstein of West Bloomfield is second genera-
father saw in the synagogue on Shabbos, she cooked
tion North American. Though her family was very much
for.
Americanized when she grew up in the 1930s and '40s,
"Her favorite foods were farfel and lockshen (noodles)
her mother still cooked traditional kosher foods.
made by hand, zupe gemacht fin os (soup made from
"Some of these recipes are over 100 years old," said
chicken) and marmolade fin pomidoren (tomato jam).
Goldstein. "My mother could season everything. She
"Whenever I make these foods, I think of my moth-
could take a small piece of meat and stretch it to serve
er all the time and how she pulled us through the terri-
20 people. It didn't matter how many people came to

ANNABEL COHEN
Special to the Jewish News

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