"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole ProverbsAny one who has ever paid a flying visit to New...
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"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

$167,877.84 $6.99

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

$167,877.84 $6.99
Author: Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904
Format: eBook
Language: English

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is Gombocompounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally los, zepinard, laitie, and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market. At all events any person who has remained in the city for a season must have become familiar with the nature of gombo fil, gombo fvi, and gombo aux herbes, or as our colored cook calls it, gombo zhbesfor she belongs to the older generation of Creole cuisinires, and speaks the patois in its primitive purity, without using a single r. Her daughter, who has been to school, would pronounce it gombo zhairbes:the modern patois is becoming more and more Frenchified, and will soon be altogether forgotten, not only throughout Louisiana, but even in the Antilles. It still, however, retains originality enough to be understood with difficulty by persons thoroughly familiar with French; and even those who know nothing of any language but English, readily recognize it by the peculiarly rapid syllabification and musical intonation. Such English-speaking residents of New Orleans seldom speak of it as Creole: they call it gombo, for some mysterious reason which I have never been able to explain satisfactorily. The colored Creoles of the city have themselves begun to use the term to characterize the patois spoken by the survivors of slavery days. Turiault tells us that in the towns of Martinique, where the Creole is gradually changing into French, the Bitacos, or country negroes who still speak the patois nearly pure, are much ridiculed by their municipal brethren:a ou ka pal l, ch, cest ng:a pas Crole! (What you talk is nigger, my dear:that isnt Creole!) In like manner a young Creole negro or negress of New Orleans might tell an aged member of his race: a qui to parl a pas Crole: a cest gombo! I have sometimes heard the pure and primitive Creole also called Congo by colored folks of the new generation. The literature of gombo has perhaps even more varieties than there are preparations of the esculents above referred to;the patois has certainly its gombo fvi, its gombo fil, its gombo zhbesboth written and unwritten. A work like Marbots Bambous would deserve to be classed with the pure fvi;the treatises of Turiault, Baissac, St. Quentin, Thomas, rather resemble that fully prepared dish, in which crabs seem to struggle with fragments of many well-stewed meats, all strongly seasoned with pepper. The present essay at Creole folklore, can only be classed as gombo zhbes(Zhbes feuil-chou, cresson, laitie, bettrav, los, zepinard);the true okra is not the basis of our preparation;it is a Creole dish, if you please, but a salmagundi of inferior quality. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44866
Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
Release Date: Feb 10, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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