Do you know how to pronounce Gouda?
After all these years, I just found out the correct pronunciation of 'Gouda' as in the cheese...Chef Terrance Brennan of Artisinal in Manhattan was doing a fondue demo on The Morning Show using the iconic cheese and said it's really called "Gowda".
Did you know that...what other food words and names have we been mispronouncing?
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17 Comments:
probably TOO many..... like ricotta - it's not RI-COT-TA.... it's
REE-CAW-TA.... it's not MOTZ-A-RELLA --- it's mootz-a-rel-llllaaaa!!!!
you say tomaaahto, i say tomayto!
pooch at 9:18AM on 02/10/09
I've always heard it pronounced (by people who should know how to pronounce it) as goo-duh as in "a pile of sticky goo" and "no, duh"
johnhutch at 9:29AM on 02/10/09
We touched on this topic a bit (pronunciation of non-English-native food words) in this thread not too long ago: Open Letter to Restaurants: It's 'Blue' Cheese, Not 'Bleu'
Adam Kuban at 10:05AM on 02/10/09
I just say it how it's spelled, or like that actor's name :)
orchidgirl at 10:35AM on 02/10/09
Just stirring the pot - in the Netherlands, many people pronounce it as, "How da" with a gutteral sound at the beginning - whatever way you pronounce it, it is delicious cheese - the way my kids grew up on it was:- toasted bread without butter, line each slice with pieces of Gouda, add a little pepper and stick under the broiler, just until the cheese starts to bubble - yummy. I had a Brazilian exchange student for a year and he ate it almost every day. My husband is Dutch and we always have Gouda in the house.
bareneed at 11:11AM on 02/10/09
If you're trying to be authentic you say how-da, but I just say goo-da.
@pooch: no Italians from Italy says MOO-tza-rella. That's an Italian American thing. In Italy it's MOH-dza-rella.
simon at 11:11AM on 02/10/09
I thought it was how-da, but like simon, I say goo-da. But yeah, in my mind, it sounds like how-da.
Kerosena at 11:45AM on 02/10/09
I definitely said goo-duh, and I think I'm going to continue saying it that way.
But other pronunciations I can't wrap my head around are:
quinoa - i always say kee-no-ah but i know that's wrong, it's supposed to be keen-wah but i just can't get used to that!
bruschetta - is it broo-shet-tah or broo-sket-ah?
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 12:47PM on 02/10/09
thanks simon! unfortunately i learned how to say it from italian immigrants straight off the boat from italy! what do they know!
pooch at 2:56PM on 02/10/09
it's pronounced "goethe" ; ()
beano at 3:18PM on 02/10/09
Goo-duh.
As far as mozzarella and ricotta...we say mooht-za-del and rih-gaut
Manicotti is Mahn-eh-gaut...
We're good old north jersey italians :)
sweethunibabi at 6:45PM on 02/10/09
@pooch- Hilarious.
meg3j at 9:29PM on 02/10/09
My girlfriend's Belgian grandmother pronounces it goo-dah just like all French speakers do, and it's a perfectly acceptable pronunciation. If she were a Flemish/Dutch speaker, she would pronounce it how-dah, but I would still say it the other way. As for the larger debate about pronouncing foreign food words, I think people can go a bit overboard with trying to be authentic and mostly come off looking like snobs and/or tools. My rule is: say it the way that feels comfortable to you, just remember who you're speaking to and the point of language is to be understood, and not showing off your worldliness.
SqueezeBottle at 11:05AM on 02/11/09
It's not Gow-da. It's khow-dah (with a guttural rasp at the beginning). While I pronounce it that way myself, if I want to find it at the store I'm going to have to ask for goo-dah if I want the stockboy to understand what on earth I'm saying. Don't even get me started on Vincent van Gogh.
JungMan at 11:21AM on 02/11/09
I know how to pronounce it (as far as I learned, just as JungMan says), but I Americanize it and say goo-duh because I feel like a total poser otherwise.
BangieB at 12:03PM on 02/11/09
I think it's kind of funny how selective we are about what we pronounce correctly. If you would ask for "chip-oh-till" or "fill-ette migg-non" you'll get laughed out of the restaurant. But apparently if you pronounce Gouda correctly...you'll probably still get laughed out of the restaurant. I've also been corrected for pronouncing gnocchi correctly (I was asked if I meant "no-chee."). On the other hand, for years I thought that pasta e fagioli was "pasta fazool," and I always thought that Gouda was "goo-dah," so I guess I'm selective about what I pronounce right too.
cycorider at 1:34PM on 02/11/09
One that always annoys me: there's no X in "espresso" !
CEBakes at 2:30PM on 02/11/09