Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Is Mac Jazich focus in i in is 2001 it depends on How you were raised food choices reflect More than just taste Sheldon Oberman i started out As a French Fries and Burger Guy but i got along Fine with French wine and Caesar salad i had some friends who ate Only food with foreign names and others who eat anything that had a i accepted and respected them All regardless of Creed or dietary pref although i suspected that what they ate might reveal something about who they after if Peoples character could be understood by their their birth their even by their Colour then Why not by their eating habits i began to look More thoughtfully into Peoples some were anorexia Cally Barren a Flat diet Shiv eled lettuce and a leftover to some were Rich with indulgences exotic fruits and dressings and drink most of them spoiled or others seemed choked with righteousness Brown Rice and organic Chard and jars of unwholesome looking herbal when i met her fridge glistened with Green Garden fresh bagels and Cream i was she was not As impressed with my she frowned at my bottomless pot of Mac my Economy tubs of Peanut butter and my sliced meats and pizzas in various states of searching she found some things that even i didst i did some soul some fridge cleaning and we overcame our differ for the Good of the relationship i agreed to give up my Crock my specially had been stewed As i so did the food i i now consider myself a bit Square but in a healthy i might have turned out differ of Over the years i have been swayed by Many influences and attracted to Many food my College was a draft dodger from Detroit who lived on a regime of pringles potato Lavatts Beer and cheer Whiz on Ritz he declared that he was immune to All illness As Long As he ate a sunday Batch of Uncle Bens White Rice soaked in soy soy sauce hed sing its the elixir of life i was developing More than a taste for his cusine de Junque until i noticed that his hair was falling out in he eventually confessed the reason for his bizarre eating habits he was rebelling against his a powerful executive who kept two double fridges for there was always a crowd at their sumptuous dinners and it had Felt crowded Orange glow i almost joined an Urban collective of Young Bliss bunnies who literally glowed with the higher reality they claimed came from macrobiotic As it turned the glow was an Orange tint in their skin from their fanatical diet of organic Carrot my fondest memories Are of a Southern Ontario minister and his inspiring people who generously welcomed me into their Home where i stayed for even attending Church with i admired i wanted to be like them but i could not manage to eat like they favoured Quarter sandwiches of Devil led each family member would have three Quarter a Glass of juice and a scoop of jell0 for to such Light eating was a mystery As great As the Miracle of loaves and yet they thrived and were All unnervingly healthy and their practice of eating adequate amounts of food simply to satisfy hunger seemed so reasonable and enlightened that it threatened every thing id been raised to in my too much was barely for i Lay awake with my mind and my stomach in i kept recalling my immigrant grandmothers parting eat eat until finally i when everyone was asleep i sneaked out like a Monk deserting his monastery to Gorge in the sinful flesh pots of the in this Mcdonalds and Tim Hor i suppose How you eat depends on How you were As a i went Home every Day for or rather i went to my parents clothing store on main Street where my Mother would ring open the Cash Register and give me Money for the deluxe theatre Coffee lunch counter food and plenty of it was my nurture and my by the time i reached Junior my dad had opened berts corned beef House in West Kildonan and every night at bedtime id phone in the same berts Whall it be my dad would holler into the receiver above the Racket of the pinball and Juke i id Gimme two corned beef on Rye no a bag of Plain an 0 Henry and a Coke hed two corned beef on Rye no a bag of Plain an 0 Henry and a Coke Canadian press dishes like borscht can stick with you All your id you got it then hed yell Good love you love maybe the food you love depends on whom you love and who loves i have searched for years for the particular kind of brownies my Mother used to its my mammas manna never to be tasted again in this tastes like soap i have friends who adore Jeanne they rave about having had Jeanne cake at All their childhood i finally tried to me it tastes like to them it tastes like the Joy of go if you Are what you then what happens to you when you cant eat what youve always eaten ill never forget How i yearned for my familiar foods during a year of travelling i craved Peanut Salis Bury House red skin ners hot dogs but most of i was aching for a big bowl of steaming hot borscht with grated hunks of boiled beef and a Side order of fresh Rye my Mouth was watering As i reached Homeland of the jews which by definition meant Homeland of jewish i searched Tel Aviv until i found a restaurant with borscht on the menu and i called out my order before i even sat the place was As shabby and relaxed As my beloved Northend delis oscars the Oasis i grinned at the families eating together and thought How much must love this food and How being raised on the same kinds of food Bonds us to a shared a common a bowl clattered in front of the borscht was As Clear As Cran Berry juice and just As the wait Ress saw my you dont like the borscht that How we eat it Here in she said with a maybe you want some pita bread to go with it Sheldon Oberman is a Winnipeg storyteller and Fol off Litfiy the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone Kun Iii letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email tree planting comedy of errors if the events of june 6 were not so Dis they would have made an amusing when my wife and i first purchased our we immediately took Over the maintenance of the Cit owned boulevards at the front and Side of our for Over 12 we have fertilized and Cut the and raked away the Sand left behind from Winter Road weve sprayed the Trees with insects and removed dead branches As a few weeks we were informed through the news Media that we were now required to do Boulevard maintenance As the adjacent property last we requested that a Boule Vard which was damaged in a vehicle be last a City work Crew arrived at the Boulevard space beside us to replace the the new tree was lifted off a waiting truck by a City Backhoe and deposited into a previously excavated the operator attempted to place the tree into position while a second City standing beside the waved frantically with one exhibiting his total Lack of even rudimentary hand As the tree settled at an awkward the Man on the ground unhooked the lift again with much waving and Gestur and the Backhoe operator tried to pull safely out of the the Side of the Backhoe bucket Tore a Long Gash up the Side of the tree the comment i heard was that the next Guys will slap some paint on it its Good enough and the Crew prepared to move to their next Loca i immediately stopped them and asked that the damaged tree be replaced with a new after several minutes of they finally agreed and with another 10 minutes of arms flying through the a undamaged tree rested and straight this in its but this is not the end of the half an hour another City Crew pulled up with soil to finalize the Plant ing they proceeded to drive their truck up onto the directly Over newly Laid Sod used to repair a City work Crews damage from earlier this year creating a Long Trench in the again i had to the Crew relented and moved off the in they used some of their soil to repair the tire tracks in the new and sprinkled some grass seed Asim sure the Birds would want me to thank these two workers for leaving the grass seed on top of the soil so that they have to dig so far to eat and did i forget to mention that no one from the City bothered to water this new addition to my Neighbour that of i would rather do it Richard Caslake Winnipeg whats wrong with Prairie grass re Gordon Sinclair column City hypocritical about mowing june 11 on Page Why is it that the City of Winnipeg and the majority of its inhabitants con Sider foot High grass unsightly and bemoan boulevards that literally go to seed we Are a Prairie City for heavens Sake is there something ugly about a Field of tall waving in the wind the effect can be the same on a Small this City was once covered with grass up to the that defined the landscape and gave it a remarkable and unique now it is just another monotonous North american grass Cape attempt ing to emulate an unattainable British pastoral Garden Ryan waksh1nski Winnipeg Wayne Lowacki Winnipeg free press the Ordinary people in the Gay Pride March travel through downtown Winnipeg on june Gay Pride Story showed Ordinary Folk it was a pleasure to see the reporting that was done on june lots Gay Pride for the first time that i can the front Page was not exclusively devoted to the More extra and sometimes members of our congratulations on being courageous enough to give some press time to the rest of us yet human beings Susan Peterman Winnipeg wheat Board ensures fair Price in reply to Fred Cleverley article wheat Board out of Date May the reason the Canadian wheat Board was formed was come Harvest the Grain Price went Down and Many Farmers had to sell at the Low Price to pay later prices would go with the wheat Board you could sell any time Between 1 and july 31 and get a fair average the wheat Board has made Many changes Over the we now have an elected Board of most of whom were elected because they wanted to retain single desk Australia has a wheat Board and Ive read Many letters in our farm papers by american Farmers who say they wished they had a wheat if the wheat growers and the farm organizations had worked to retain the Crow the Farmers would be much bet Ter off Jack Wheeler Treherne worry about real criminals recently several of my colleagues asked me How Long it would take them to receive their gun they told me that they applied for a Possession Only licence pol due to the government they were issued with a temporary permit that would make them compliant with the these permits expire at the end of we have been unable to find out when the pol will sounds like my relative and friends will become paper criminals on july the bureaucrats in charge of this paper Chase should be really worried about the real criminals the ones who acquire guns without a licence of any kind and then use them for real crimes like Hunting opponent gang Ken Misichko Winnipeg Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 vol 129 n0187 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba Prou 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