John Kerry’s Orthodox Christmas

“Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968, eating kutia, varenyky and pampushky on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared–seared–in me. And this pysanky my Baba sent me.”

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Well now we know he’s fibbing. What self-respecting future U.S. senator wouldn’t start with a bowl of borscht? As for the varenyky — unless he had my late aunt Mary’s recipe for the dough, they just wouldn’t be worth eating.

He’s correct in saying that you start with kutia. My question is who would prepare those complex ritual foods on a gunboat?

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