Western PA Ethnic Cooking - Slovak - Part 9

LINKS TO PARTS 1-7 OF Western PA Ethnic Cooking Blog

http://internationalfoodblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/western-pa-ethnic-cooking-links-to.html#.Ua-MJUC1GSo

LINK TO PART 8

http://internationalfoodblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/western-pa-ethnic-cooking-bulgarian.html#.UeWSw0C1GSo

The Slovaks emigrated to western PA during the Oppressive Austro-Hungarian rule 

• 1800's to 1950
• Settled in Pittsburgh lower Homestead area
• Families in area took in boarders
• They were referred to as "Hunkies"
• Millworkers, train loaders and worked in cinder pits
• Hard workers
• Roman Catholic & some Orthodox
• Straka's Bar (Ann Street now)

WIKI ON SLOVAKIA LINK  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovaks

Popular dishes prepared and eaten by Slovaks were

• potato soups
     
  
  
• nut rolls  
      
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Easter cheese
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Halusky   
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• potato dumplings 
  
  
  
• Kolbassi (several spellings)  
  
  
  
• piroghy (several spellings)  
  
  
  
  
  
• stuffed cabbage  
  
  
  
  
  
• goulash  
  
  
  
  
  
• kolache  
  
  
  
  
• other

LINKS BELOW TO MODERN VERSIONS OF SLOVAKIAN FOOD

SlovakRepublic.org

Slovakia.org

Slovakcooking.com