Poland Two - Text
Female, born 1959 and raised in Warsaw, had been living in Cairo for six years when Krista Scott recorded this interview with her on 6/24/99. The subject has text book Polish accent and, among other topics, discusses how to make authentic Polish borscht. Edited by Paul Meier 6/26/99. Running time: 03:04
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I'm Polish, I'm from Warsaw, I was born there and I live there for many years. I went to school there, to the University there I...trained as architect, and I used to work as an architect in Poland for many years, designing various things like villas, hospitals. I've been living in Egypt for six years now working here as a conservation architect doing the conservation to mostly Slavic monuments but not only also Roman and Christian. I've got a friend here who is from New Zealand, and he's writing a cookbook, and he never knew, so I think it's very important that I tell it, that the soup call in English borscht is called barszcz in Polish, and this is the beetroot soup with no vegetable in because the soup which is commonly known as barszcz contains carrots and beetroots and potatoes and we call it in Poland Ukrainian kind of barszcz, in Poland it's pure and we serve it with little pierogis packed with white mushrooms.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY FAITH HARVEY 2 JULY 2008