Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Kourbash
A kourbash is nothing to do with food - despite the wonderful meanings dreamed up by our contributors today. It's actually a whip used for punishment in Turkey and Egypt. Voters preferred the entry from Madame C who described kourbash as the Polish equivalent of Greek plate breaking - only it's glasses that get broken. Good thinking Madame C.
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A stew cooked by nomads of the Sahara, Kourbash tends to contain ingredients the hapless outsider had better not ask about.
(sorry, it's nearly 1 am here and I'm knackered or I'd try harder to be witty!)
A kourbash is a pagan festival, falling on the last day of the NaBloPoMo month, and celebrates the end of a month of intensive writing.
This is a busy mom's ideal.
A group of women taking turns to cook a meal and delivering it to each member's house.
The more women participating in the group, the less they have to cook.
Shari was so glad she found this kourbash. She doesn't like to cook that much and it's so much healthier than fast food. Imagine only cooking twice a week!! She only has to triple the ingredients to make meals for three families.
She plans to spread the word so that more women would join the kourbash. Wouldn't it be great if it came to cooking one meal a week or two? All she has to do is cook a large batch. It gives a whole new meaning to "Pampered Chefs."
I think kourbash is the Polish equivelant of the plate smashing in Greek restaurants, it ususally occurs after a night of drinking Polish vodka and it is the glasses that are smashed not plates.
Actually thinking about it the people are probably fairly kourbashed too.
Kourbash is a latvian word. Remember that programme "Taxi" that was on years ago, the one with Tony Danza in and we all fell in love with him. In "Taxi" there was that character who was from Latvia and didn't speak any English. I can't remember his name. If anyone else can, please tell me, it will really bug me now. Anyway, I digress. The latvian guy used the word kourbash all the time. Whenever anyone asked him to do something and he didn't really want to do it, he would mutter kourbash under his breath. So I think an english translation would be something like "Do it yourself you lazy sod".
Kourbash in another name for the Dutch "stampot," a dish in which meat, cabbage, carrots and onions are cooked, then mashed together. This is the "kour" portion. The "bash" refers to the manner in which the meal is served. When it is flung from a serving spoon, it makes a firm and hearty "bash" sound as it hits the dinner plate. Kourbash is an aquired taste. It is a handy meal to serve to the very young, the very old, and the toothless.
funny how so many of us are thinking "food" for this one... but it's actually not food for humans. Kourbash is what Eastern Europeans call the "slop" that is fed to pigs -- a mixture of everything left over.
Jude,
It was Latka (Andy Kaufman).
A celtic dance performed by three people and a bunch of turnips.
Kourbash is when you decide not to do something.
I wanted to go to the movies, but my husband kourbashed our plans.
Kourbash is the word a drunk person uses to describe his dirty car's needs.
It's a game where you line up apple cores and use a little pistol with plastic bullets and see how many cores you can get in one go!
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