The article also included a quotation that gave an outdated name for a newspaper where a dictionary editor said that some people send their knaidel recipes. |
Auntie Gussie would bring her tsimmes, sugared diced carrots baked with meat, and knaidel, a kind of matzo ball. |
Or so say mavens of Yiddish about the winning word, knaidel, in the widely televised Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. |
Although he has never tasted a knaidel or a kneidl, he will soon. |
Until then, if all I have to look forward to is spelling bee champions, I'd rather just drown my sorrows in a bowl of knaidel soup. |