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Hi Valmiki,
Thanks for your post. I really appreciate your support.
Could you please advise us of the approximate dates around which the
Bardezkars of Bardez in North Goa adopted which European dishes from the
Portuguese ? Did they commercialize them and make a career of popularizing
them like some of the Sashtikars of South Goa did ? I believe the Sashtikars
of Salcete in South Goa started working as cooks and Butlers on British
ships en masses ever since since the first British occupation of Goa early
in the 1800s. I wonder why the Bardezkars did not pick up the recipe for
sourdough bread (pao) from the missionaries, like the South Goa Sashtikars
did ? You mean you all were eating fish mayonaise with your bakor until the
Sashtikar Poders of Majorda introduced you all to our sourdough bread or pao
?
Also please give us more details on what else the Italian friars taught the
baker clans of Majorda besides sourdough bread and bol.
I always believed that it was Pandit Nehru who proclaimed at the dawn of
Goa's Liberation to the country and the world that "Today we have got the
land of Cooks and Butlers" in 1961 - we in South Goa felt real proud and
took that as a compliment for our culinary skills and epicurean delights.
Please advise when Babu Nirad Chaudhary wrote this in his "Continent of
Circe".
Also you may want to comment on your sorpotel preference - the zestier one
from Salcete (fortified with Coconut vinegar and coconut feni) or the
relatively more bland stuff from Bardez ?
I had organized a number of sorpotel cook-off competitions in Austin, Texas
in the mid-eighties among the Sashtikars (zestiest, fortified with our
coconut feni and coconut vinegar), Ilhaskars(too much haldi), Bardezkars
(too bland, not pungent enough, came close to disqualification from the
three-alarm contest), Mangaloreans(too much bafat masala, corriander taste)
and East Indians (close second, tangy and zesty, fortified with the East
Indian bottled masala) to pick the winners who would challenge the "Bubbas"
of South Austin in their Three Alarm Chilli Cook-off competitions and we
always won on the pungency scale.
Best Regards,
Dr. Carmo D'Cruz,
Goan, Velkar,
Now, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida
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