On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 6:24:15 AM UTC-7, Chatty Cathy wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Aug 2015 09:09:44 -0400, S Viemeister wrote:
>
> > On 8/1/2015 8:00 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:
> >
> >> All my grandparents had passed on by the time I was about 6 or 7 - and
> >> I never met any of them - but my Dad used to love 'stuffed cabbage
> >> leaves'; he used to stuff them with a mixture of ground beef, onions,
> >> garlic and carrots (IIRC) - which he said his Mom used to make and was
> >> one of his father's favourites.
> >>
> > All the old babushkas I knew added rice to their stuffed cabbage.
>
> He referred to them as 'galumkis' (no idea how it's really spelled - but
> that's what it sounded like to me when I was a kid). And yes, rice also
> rings a bell... also think there might have been some bread crumbs
> involved in the stuffing too.
>

Spelled golabki, with a slash through the L to give it more of a w
sound. (The city of Lodz is pronounced Woodj in Polish.)

Golabki means "doves." And what strikes me is how similar the
pronunciation of the Polish word Golabki is to the Italian word
colombe.