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Believe it or NOT ! Tales from Goa ........... One more for the e-book. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - Alfonso Bond Braganza.......wrote " SARAPATEL sounds more like a Gujarati dish !! SORPOTEL ... really sounds tasty and Goan." .......... Yes, its sounds like a Gujarati name , " SARAPATEL " * SAR _A_PATEL* was named after Sir Patel a member of Parliament in the UK Govt., who had visited Goa In 1563 ! At a reception held in his honor , a tasty Goan dish was served , he enjoyed it so much and asked what the *dish * was called , I am not too sure , Sar a Patel , was the answer , that s sounds a good name for a tasty Goan dish ....said the guest of humour , and thats how the name came to being ...and that s how it is called today ..... * Sarpatel * Keep :-) ing Viva to ......soro pot el or whatever ? rene Viva. - Alfonso Bond Braganza oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Loiola Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Some origin of ( SARA-PA-TEL) > During my Seminary High School days, our good old Padre Filinto Dias would > surprise us sometimes with the orthography of certain words which had come > to be universally misspelt (and mis-pronounced) by Portuguese-speaking > Goans. He taught us to write SARAPATEL. Incidentally, Sarapatel, also known > as Sarrabulho (Cf. SAMPAIO E MELO, Dicionario de Portugues; JAIME DE > SEGUIER, Dicionario Pratico Ilustrado, among other lexicons) is commonly > referred to and written by Portuguese-speaking Goans as SORPATEL, by > English-speaking Goans as SORPOTEL, and by Konkani-speaking Goans (at least > from my Saxtti) as SORPTEL. Interestingly, both the above mentioned > Luso-Brazilian dictionaries trace the word to the original Spanish > "zarapatel." Could it be that sorpotel/sorpatel/sarpatel/sorptel originated > in the kitchens of Spain? > > J. Loiola Pereira. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gomes, Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [Goanet]Some origin of ( SARA-PATEL) > > > I tend to agree that the origin of Sarpatel may indeed be African. > ... I found the comments of EF rather interesting > in regards to the origin of Sarpatel or Sarabulho. > > Anthony Gomes, MD. > > -----Original Message----- > From: sarabond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Goanet]Some origin of ( SARA-PATEL) > > > SARAPATEL sounds more like a Gujarati dish !! > SORPOTEL ... really sounds tasty and Goan. > > Viva. > > - Alfonso Bond Braganza ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
