After nearly in the past four years of victory, v. Mahankali Arvind's won the 86th Scripps national spelling bee on Thursday. The word, he spelled correctly take title: "knaidel."
Knaidel?
Unusual word, due to its prominent role, the nationwide competition, held this year, the national port of 281 contestants, Maryland immediately rise to another respect ranks, including "guetapens" and "cymotrichous," the two words before the ejection contestants to fame. But what is a "knaidel" what meaning be? May also can spell "kneidel"? Or "kneydl"?
Jacques pai, knaidel, according to official pronouncer to bee is "small increase in quality by boiling water or steam and boil soup." It has its Yiddish word derived originated in Germany.
Well, don't do this for us. To speak frankly, we still have a lot of problems.
Yahoo news, therefore, took to the streets of New York city to visit some of its many food shops and restaurants of Yiddish see, if we can some enlightenment to the matter. At the very least, we'd like to see a knaidel.
"Who are you looking for the needle?" Ask Mr. Broadway jewish restaurant chefs in the clothing area. "I think that you are in the wrong place."
At B&H vegetarian restaurant, an east village mecca Yiddish comfort food, the staff also confusion about our questions, "what is a knaidel?" A server named Alexandra, let's give her spelling words.
"Knaidel".
"I don't know," Alexander said. "Perhaps this is Ukraine," she concerned are provided in the etymology of the word. "Try to Williamsburg, brooklyn or green dot."
Be informed of the new words spelling bees and found the meaning of Mahankali broken after victory, Alexandra shrugged. "For him, I guess."
Alexandra may be correct, however, and many of brooklyn speak Yiddish community will have an answer.
According to the good folks of Yelp, south Williamsburg Hatzlacha supermarkets will be the most likely place to find out of it. Hatzlacha jewish grocery store is a service clients are mostly speak Yiddish, all with a considerable choice from a fish market and deli jewish discs. If they don't know, who is it?
"Can you spell it? Ask a Hatzlacha employees, a woman in her 20 s."
"Knaidel".
"This is unleavened bread ball," she said. "Unleavened bread crumbs, eggs, and soda, it's just a ball unleavened bread."
"Like a ball unleavened bread, or a ball unleavened bread?"
"It's a ball unleavened bread."
So knaidel just one unleavened bread balls! What kind of suddenly become famous? The word may take the rest of the world, and delicatessens and Passover Seders now serve knaidel everywhere, instead of unleavened bread, soup.
Yahoo news check with Peter Shelsky Shelsky smoked fish near the brooklyn carol garden, its food is an updated version of the traditional smoked fish and appetizing, in order to obtain experts believe someone frontier at the scene of the modern jewish food in New York.
When asked about food's winning the role of spelling bees, Shelsky, said his opinion knaidel rise is positive.
"Any new kosher Renaissance bring attention is great," he said, added that he didn't remember the last time he used the word.
"I don't remember the last time I wrote 'knaidel,'." Shelsky said. He also not sure how to spell it. "This is like a 'light of those things." There are about five ways spelling 'light', I never stick to one of them. "
Are almost the same way to spell "knaidel" (including "kneidel" change, "kneydl" and "knaydl"). But Mr Scripps national spelling bee recognizes only a, Mahankali clearly know his penultimate word "niche".
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