Ok folks the ball's finally rolling, for all those who dont know what 'susegaad' means, it's a konkani word for taking it easy...the good life...(if you believe that taking it easy is equal to the good life according to my mum :) the following excerpt from an article in the times will help explain it a little better...
"Goa is South Asia’s Latin Quarter: indulgent, tolerant, capricious, steeped in a tropical lassitude and wedded to the sea. To explain themselves, Goans speak of susegaad, a term whose translation depends upon whom you ask. It comes from the Portuguese word socegado, meaning quiet, which doesn’t really do it justice.
For Goans, susegaad identifies a laid-back attitude to life. When I asked Mrs Perreira Braganza about it, she sniffed, “It’s nothing more than indolence.” When I asked her niece, she grinned and said, “Relax, take your time, enjoy life, be happy. That’s susegaad.”
on that note let the recipes roll...:)
3 comments:
Fabulous my dear, fabulous.....
can't wait to see what concoctions appear on the feast table.
love and more,
Prash
My friend Jane says about the blog:
"very keen on your blog
this is what the world needs! (really)"
i totally agree.
love
meg
Susegaad, going by the original meaning of 'quiet', could equally be 'peace', which, if carried forward from the Sixties to todays's language would come close to 'chill', through an earlier 'cool'.
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