LAist: You Say Tomato, I Say Bruschetta: A Toasty Italian Quartet

Joey

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:14:46 -0800

Webster's Online lists both pronunciations. Language does evolve, so it may just be the American evolution of the word as someone else pointed out.

Carrie

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:02:37 -0800

HEY DAN, thanks for the correction - I actually did put capers in my tapenade, I just forgot to include them in the ingredient list! Didn't know that about olive paste vs. capers - all I know is that I've been eating my recipe for three days straight cause it's so gosh darn delicious. Incidentally, you can offer linguistic tidbits anytime you want, I totally eat that kind of stuff up. EAT UP!! Ha ha. I'm so great.

sundevilmike

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:38:37 -0800

Man, I wish I was there...as an italian-american, there's nothing that irks me more than people trying to edcucate me about my own heritage. see also: people who say MAN-I-COTTY (manicotti). stupid cheesecake people.

Dan

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:09:36 -0800

The word "tapenade" is derived from the Provencal (sorry, I can't write the proper "c") French dialect word for capers so, being pedantic, if the paste does not include capers it is not tapenade. We market two pastes, other than tapenade, one is Meslalla and the other is Zitouna. Dan

Carrie

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:31:03 -0800

thank god cheesecake factory goes down...this time. THIS TIME.

guidette originally from the bronx

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:23:12 -0800

dont worry, you are absolutely right about the hard c. people here pronounce it bru"sh"etta and then always confuse it with "proscuitto". ive seen it happen far too often.

sam

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:51:15 -0800

it's the american way of saying the word...we're in america...so that's what they are used to. even if it makes you sound ignorant/stupid in italy and nothing in cheesecake factory is all that.(of course its hard to imagine anything being spectacular when their "specialties" page has like 200 items)

aarti

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:29:45 -0800

whatever the correct way is, i think the hard "c" sounds better anyways. way more... exotic. :) i can't wait to try tuna and bacon. say whaaaaat?

hc

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:30:34 -0800

Do you think it's a regional pronunciation thing? My ex-boyfriend's Italian family all used the "sh" sound. They were from southern Italy....though maybe all the years of Chicago living impacted the Italian language skills.

Sydney

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:11:36 -0800

Yes, it's bru-SKET-ta. Unfortunately, everyone else around here seems to think it's bru-SHET-ta and thinks it's their job to "correct" the few who haven't caved into linguistic peer pressure. I'll still go on saying it with the hard "ch" sound though.

joy

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:36:15 -0800

first of all, if wikipedia says you're right then that's that. anyway, even if wikipedia didn't exist you'd still be right. i took one course of italian language one summer in italy and the only thing i really remember, besides the bad words, is that bruschetta is pronounced bru-SKET-ta.