FN, May 28, 2006. PS: If you know more about Mascarenhas, please share it with Goanet goanet@goanet.org -- a place to discuss all thinks (even remotely) Goan.
Fred, Anthony Mascarenhas was a senior journalist for the Sunday Times (UK) and I vividly remember reading his articles in the 1970's and being spellbound by them. In Dec 2001 I came across an item in the Daily Mail (UK) about Cynthia and Yvonne Mascarenhas of London. I managed to track them down and discovered that they were the daughter and wife of Anthony! They told me that Anthony had died in 1986 and that he had traced his Goan roots to Sangolda. From: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2002/Jan/issue2/ >From The Daily Mail Dec. 24, 2001. HEADLINE: Christmas dinner around the world: Cynthia Mascarenhas, 38, is a chef. She is single and lives with her mother Yvonne, 70, a widow, in a four-bedroom house in Ladbroke Grove, West London. Cynthia says: Our Christmas meal is a traditional Goan buffet. There is a Sorpotel curry, which is a definitive Christmas dish made with pork and lambs' liver and thickened with spices, and a chicken curry with Masala paste, coriander, cardamoms and white wine vinegar, so it's hot, sour and spicy. Then there's a fish curry with snapper fish cooked with king prawns, red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander and lemon grass, thickened with coconut milk. The main meat dish is a honey roasted suckling pig stuffed with breadcrumbs, chicken livers, raisins, almonds, pistachios, dried coriander, cumin, cinnamon, chilli, garlic and onion. We balance the rich curries with sweet pilau rice infused with saffron and mixed with caramelised onions, pistachios, raisins and almonds. We also serve a tomato and onion salad and a raita yoghurt mixture made with tomatoes and strewn with sweet paprika, garam masala and cayenne pepper. Steamed rice dumplings called sannas are served for dipping in the curry sauces. Light and fluffy, they're made from ground rice, coconut milk and 'toddy' (a fermented coconut juice), moulded into balls and steamed in banana leaves. For pudding we have bibic, which is a layered coconut custard cake infused with cardamoms, and brightly-coloured marzipan sweets called kuswars. With coffee, we have deep-fried pastries, called newris, made with fresh grated coconut, unrefined sugar, raisins and sesame seeds. ................... Cynthia Mascarenhas is the daughter of the late (died 1986) Anthony Mascarenhas, the renowned Sunday Times journalist. Her father traced his roots to Sangolda and her mother hails from Aldona. ================================================= Eddie Fernandes _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)