The music helped spark a cultural revival in the old country.
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Most are Iranian-American dual nationals, many with family in the old country.
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When they were kids, in the old country, disobedience was not an option.
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Browne's books are the relics I have brought with me from the old country.
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The amari explosion in the United States notwithstanding, most brands don't leave the old country.
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Grocery stores offering spices and gossip from the old country sprang up around the neighborhood.
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And nowhere was this philosophy made quite so literal than at the Old Country Buffet.
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This is what Manhattan, circa 2017, does to an aproned matriarch from the old country.
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"The Old Country" appears in "Selected Poems 19683-2014," Mr. Muldoon's third "best of" volume.
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If music be the food of love then get ready to hit the Old Country Buffet.
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Want to learn how to set a classy table for new arrivals from the old country?
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But unlike "Familiar," no one in "The Profane" is longing to return to the old country.
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The poem is "The Old Country," and it first appeared in his collection "Horse Latitudes" (2006).
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For more than 4m Indian-Americans, he had subtly equated his own person with the Old Country.
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The tender beef goulash with spätzle will make anyone with a grandparent from the Old Country cry.
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My husband and his family are Ukrainian immigrants and the coat's gotta be from the old country.
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The arrest tangentially highlights a bit of the cultural divide between Italian-Americans and the old country.
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For others, it runs deeper and involves relinquishing all ties, even linguistic ones, to the old country.
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As India's economy grows its diaspora sees ever more benefit from keeping close ties with the old country.
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But cream cheese was invented by a goy from upstate New York, not Jews from the old country.
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"It's got the best proximity to the old country club in town, Idle Hour Country Club," he said.
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Her grandfather emigrated from Eastern Europe and never spoke about the old country or who he'd left behind.
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That was his American dream, which he passed on to me, come to life in the Old Country Buffet.
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On one level, "The Old Country" is a twisting poem that's nearly as merry as a brook in springtime.
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"My children grew up here and went to college and they have no connection to the old country," he said.
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Ambrose moves from the Old Country to the Spellman women's house, carting along his two cobra familiars, Nag and Nagaiana.
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However, before you book your trip, know that there's no such thing as a free refill in the old country.
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There's a classic kind of professionalism in the act, sort of like the old country stars—Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash.
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My great-uncle Charles was chased out of the Old Country for somehow producing forks that were always white-hot.
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" Writer Bringing the Old Country to the country: "My family started out pretty poor, and then we became middle class.
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Portugal also has a draw for the intellectual diaspora that was previously educated abroad, and now hankers after the old country.
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In some corners of the Old Country literacy itself had been a privilege, and it remained one in the antebellum South.
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Going out to dinner at the Old Country Buffet in Seattle meant a big night out for my dad and me.
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Dear Amy: I belong to a large extended family that throws a reunion every five years, back in the old country.
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They cling to customs and religions that they brought with them from the old country because those are their connection to home.
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Jake (Steven Keats), formerly Yankel, a Jewish immigrant determined to assimilate, is embarrassed when his wife joins him from the old country.
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Drogon probably got a boost from his time in the old country, and all three of them got a boost while on Dragonstone.
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In the past migrating religious groups either merged into their host societies or else pickled the culture of the old country in aspic.
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Harry is the elder, more conscientious bean counter, conscious of the old country, honest and devout, the self-appointed guardian of family morals.
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Generations after most Irish-Americans lost touch with the old country, it is still evident—indeed especially evident—on the right and left today.
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One of his big fears had been that he would die in the old country, and no one would be coming to his grave.
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"It was no longer the story of the immigrant who comes to America and who is longing for the old country," Mr. Sanderson said.
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This is not a tableau of exotic spices and brilliant saris, of flashbacks to fables told in a village back in the old country.
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Or the old country that my great-grandfather came from, or the old countries that your ancestors came from, or maybe you came from.
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Few of us had money and many of us had problems: parents who struggled to find work, missed the old country or suffered from depression.
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Before all the current hoopla, babka was just a nice Jewish cake from the old country with barely any recognition beyond the lox-loving set.
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Here's a little taste of the old country, a Week Three 1994 edition of Primetime: Back when Jackson started at ESPN, there was no internet.
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Until recent years, many Jews in America believed that the worst of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a vestige of the old country.
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Polish-Americans vote for different U.S. candidates in elections for different reasons, many of which have little to do with support for the old country.
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Chances are, your ancestors did not get on a boat because life in the old country was placid and prosperous and grandpa owned a bank.
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If the antipodean bells stirred sentimental memories of the old country, the American bells, as if galvanised by sharper air, became symbols of freedom and revolution.
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Jay P. Dolan, the author of "The Irish Americans: A History," said corned beef and cabbage is a relatively uncommon dish back in the old country.
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In the old country, the paczki was a means for the Polish to rid the cupboard of the sweets, preserves, and lard nixed from Lent diets.
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The Judaism of nostalgia — of oh we loved Grandmother's chicken soup or the familiar melodies or the language of the old country — weakens as memories fade.
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"Growing up in South Carolina, my father used to talk about Mansoura," he said, "from the old country," referring to the bakery's previous iteration in Cairo.
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My mother and my eldest daughter owe Luise their middle name—a keepsake of the Old Country, like a lock of hair or a finger bone.
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Her parents were Russian Jews who fled the old country to escape the pervasive anti-Semitism that overtook the empire at the turn of the 20th century.
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"Dheepan" is all about questions of identity and belonging, bonds of convenience and bonds of love, and tribal divisions in the old country and in the new.
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Although I was dimly aware of these skills when growing up, it was not until 1986 that I realized that the old country ways were fast disappearing.
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If you want to get drunk at breakfast and act like an asshole, you don't need to wear green and make shit up about the Old Country.
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They also came for the schools, education having been in their corner of the Old Country a scarce resource, available to the few, withheld from the many.
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Mr. Lovitz portrays Harry as a menschy Yiddish grotesque, garbed in Borough Park finery and commanding a trio of airborne donkeys with names from the old country.
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From my earliest memory, the old country — so to speak — felt like a foreign place; for me it was, at least at times, a place of hunger.
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These days it's typically eaten cold, schmeared onto a cracker, but back in the old country it was often served hot and fried, which sounds infinitely more delicious.
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Apparently a tong war (or, in this case, some meddling dark spirits from the old country) still gives an Asian story a better chance of getting onscreen. (Aug.
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She carried them everywhere, her schoolbooks, which understandably she was incapable of reading, and in her other hand the great unspooling cable of voices from the old country.
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Most of the products sold at the 109-year-old specialty shop in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood are from the old country, and attract customers from all over.
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The young men would be schooled in academics, art, and culture, of course, and would typically sow their wild oats amidst the vast cultural diversions of the old country.
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My grandmother, who returned to Italy only once after immigrating to the United States, wrote letters to her family in the old country, because calling frequently was just too expensive.
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Take, for instance, the polpette di cafone, bread dumplings in marinara sauce that were historically a peasant substitute for meatballs in the old country (the name translates to "fake meatballs").
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The tune has a steadily bouncing cadence and a pat melody; it's something like the old-country tune you're forced to dance to at a cousin's wedding, then go home singing.
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Like many other Christian celebrations, those Celts who celebrated All Hallows Eve in the old country did so as a compromise between the Catholic Church and the Druids who preceded it.
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Like Italian-Americans, Italian-Australians have their own dishes and sayings and way of life, one that's profoundly reverential of the old country and grateful for the bounty of this country.
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It may very well be the case that a lot of the old country club Republicans — or "Rockefeller Republicans" — don't associate with the party like they used to, because of Trump.
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Dr Thouless, who takes home half the prize money, collaborated with Dr Kosterlitz, who shares the other half with Dr Haldane, in the 1970s, when both were still in the old country.
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The gentleness of the people, how serene they seemed, and not in any weird or ethereal way—it reminded me of the old country people I grew up with around South Louisiana.
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"I'll go all day without hearing one American accent," said Sheila Savage, who has worked at the butcher for the past few years after her most recent move from the old country.
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After a couple of back-and-forth trips between the old country and the new (including a close call at conscription into Franco's military), he was granted permanent U.S. residency in 1965.
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The shame that drove me to say "y'all" struck me again at the Old Country Store & Restaurant in Jackson, Tennessee, locally famous for its cracklin' cornbread, player piano, and ice cream parlor.
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Pedro similarly sets the sounds of the old country (his name is taken from the Scottish legend of the Blue Men of the Minch) to the pulsating, electro rhythms of the modern city.
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Eager to preserve his native culture, he opened a small shop on Avenue A in Manhattan where he sold records, books, clothes and other trinkets from the old country to other Ukrainian immigrants.
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Their gathering sessions in 22005 involved bertsolaritza, which is improvised poetry competition; irrintzi, a battle scream delivered by women; and traditional dancing from the old country as well as from Great Basin communities.
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Growing up in American, I looked down on the Old Country Buffet as place for people in need of charity, while he saw such bountiful food at such a low price as a luxury.
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My grandmother was from the "old country" and she wisely told me never to wish bad health on your enemies, because you never know when that negative energy could come back around to you.
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Professor Benjamin said the governor, like generations of previous New York politicians, was acknowledging that New York voters — many of them the descendants of recent immigrants — appreciate when leaders go back to the old country.
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I liked them adorned as in the old country, with dill and sour cream, although, as at Anton's, there are cheeky modern additions like mayonnaise spiked with wasabi or a swirl of tobiko, sriracha and honey.
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But he still saw the abundance of the Old Country Buffet as a symbol of his success, a sign that he had transcended his old identity as a poor immigrant and become a valued American citizen.
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When a Jamaican woman goes mad, neighbors tell her family that she is "cleaning for white people in New York"; a misbehaving Brooklyn teen-ager is sent to live with her strict grandmother in the old country.
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The Italian-American Catholicism of the area was centered on street processions devoted to saints brought over from the old country: San Gandolfo for the Sicilians on Elizabeth Street, San Gennaro for the Neapolitans on Mulberry Street.
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"We're recreating peasant food that was cooked by fire all over Italy," said Taylor Mason, the chef and an owner (with Leeann Mason, his wife), who sources recipes from antique cookbooks he acquires in the old country.
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It wouldn't be a Michelin-star restaurant that symbolized his ultimate assimilation into American culture, but the Old Country Buffet, where food was bountiful, where no pangs of hunger could be felt, and every craving could be satisfied.
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Had the family stayed in the old country, and with their son on the same career path, Samuel, nominated to his post in 2006, would have been term-limited out of the Corte Suprema di Cassazione in 2015.
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Kepel has argued in his recent books that the French Muslim community, once guided by the paternalist figures from the old country known as darons, is now increasingly under the sway of younger and far more confrontational Islamists.
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Neither of them likes the future that's in store for them in the old country, so they run away to Boston; Nicole Kidman offers to let Tom Cruise accompany her on her passage to America as her servant.
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Babushka, for her part, entertained Paley by recounting the heated arguments that had taken place around her table in the old country among her four children: Isaac the Socialist, Grisha the Anarchist, Luba the Zionist, and Mira the Communist.
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"People were just throwing this stuff out," Ms. Pisch said of the dead-stock rolls, sheets, towels and wagon covers she has salvaged from flea markets and the homes of friends' parents during regular pilgrimages to the old country.
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In "A New Gravestone For an Old Grave," Victor, who was also born in Latvia, but who immigrated to Los Angeles with his family as a child, is sent back to the old country to attend to some family business.
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For Clinton voters, Sanders is the professor who didn't give a high mark because they were short on Trotsky, a woman-hating shoe salesman who won't shut up about the old country as they try to make their dinner reservation.
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The Russian-speaking Jewish refugees in his novels, the generation that came to the United States just before and just after the fall of the Soviet Union, have lost the Old Country twice, yet they are never quite free of it.
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Like so many others, my family came to this country escaping discrimination in the Old Country and facing injustice in the New: abusive labor conditions; university quotas; social exclusion when we tried to climb the ladder of the American dream.
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I arrived in the United States when I was 3, so I could not relate to the traumas of being a new immigrant; I did not remember enough of the "old country" to truly yearn for it as they did.
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But for all the sophistication of Georgia's capital, there is still a gap between the atmosphere of diaspora communities and the cultural mores of the old country, where the Orthodox church is dominated by ultra-conservatives and has a violent fringe.
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Despite having Irish ancestors who immigrated to the United States in the 19th century, Keefe, a journalist for The New Yorker, shares little of the "tribal solidarity" with the old country that was ubiquitous in Boston, where he grew up.
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Since I'm the only one in the family left to tell its stories, there wasn't anybody I could check with to see if there might have been a cookie or a bowl of cornmeal mush from the old country that I was forgetting.
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Here in this adaptation of Havana, where the thrum of the old country persists, proposed zoning changes have led the National Trust for Historic Preservation to place a portion of Little Havana on its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2015.
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We found a table under the canopy of a fig tree at El Gioviale Café & Restaurant, a trattoria run by Matteo and Francesco Trecca and Giulia Tulli, three Italians who brought recipes from the old country when they moved to Formentera a few years ago.
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The celebration then moved to Mari Vanna, a restaurant in the Flatiron district with a heavy Russian accent, its dining room filled with porcelain Russian nesting dolls set atop a sofa, jugs of vodka and a continuous loop of folk songs from the old country.
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The spinning wheel turns out to be just one piece in Cka Ka Qellu's collection of antique tools, stringed instruments, yokes, brass coffee mills, manual typewriters, dishes of hammered metal and embroidered costumes that the owner, Ramiz Kukaj, brought over from the old country.
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Although the old country songs were part of the local environment, Strait didn't start paying close attention until after college, when he encountered some albums by a brilliant and mercurial singer-songwriter from California: Merle Haggard, a country "outlaw" who was also obsessed with the genre's history.
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"Sellers will leave one cuff link, one earring, a belt on a top shelf," said Mr. Splendore, who has happened upon false teeth left in a dishwasher, keys, keys, many keys, awards, diplomas, a wedding band and photos of family members back in the old country.
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Three years ago, he moved back to his native Brooklyn with his wife, Fukiko Aoki, and is now locked in a battle with his aging body to finish his 2100nd and, he said, possibly last book, "Back to the Old Country," a reminiscence about the borough that shaped him.
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The enduring appeal of the mob flick is its inversion of one of America's most cherished myths: that all you need to succeed is to work hard and play by the rules, that the parochial bonds of the old country will dissolve in the melting pot of liberal democracy.
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In addition to remembrances of what he called the Ali Circus and the characters at the 5th Street Gym, he told of his boxing life in "Fight Doctor" (1977) and of his youth in "Ybor City Chronicles" (1995), in which he described the "old country" ways of his father, Joseph.
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Most Americans (certainly most white Americans) believe in the idea of their country as a "nation of immigrants": the place where generations of people came from other countries to build a better life for themselves and their families, where the heritages of the "old country" were quietly subsumed by a broader American identity.
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If it makes you feel better, regardless how much better and cheaper the produce is in Brighton Beach than other parts of the city, it remains but a pale shadow of the flavors of the Old Country, where everything was simultaneously exponentially worse and so much better that life is now devoted to memorializing it.
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"Parades in New York City have this heightened sense of significance that they might not even have back in the old country," said Brendan Fay, an immigrant from Ireland who co-founded the LGBTQ Irish group Lavender and Green Alliance, and spent 25 years fighting to be allowed into New York 's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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" In late July, Mr. Hamill and his wife, Fukiko Aoki Hamill, a Japanese journalist and novelist, leased out their TriBeCa loft, where he lived when he published a paean subtitled "My Manhattan," and returned, for the first time in more than three decades, to what he characterizes as "the Old Country, the Democratic Republic of Brooklyn.
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But the history of Deadwood is spread all around in Mount Moriah's picturesque verdant slopes: In the Chinese section, which contains few markers (most Chinese sent their dead back to the old country for burial) but does have a ceremonial burner (for religious ceremonies) that has been recently restored, and in the Jewish section, Mount Zion (a.k.a.
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What had shaped them was not the mass immigration of 1880-1910, which had severed my family from the Old Country constraints of a ghetto existence and the surveillance of religious orthodoxy and the threat of anti-Semitic violence, but the overtaking of the farm and the farmer's indigenous village values by the pervasive business culture and its profit-oriented pursuits.
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Part of the American story is we talk about countless examples in people's history, people's family history, when someone came from the old country — whether that was England, whether that was Germany, whether that was Ireland or Italy — and they had nothing except a dollar in their pocket, and then they went on and eventually worked hard and made it and were able to achieve the American dream.
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The small-town clapboard churches that sprang up in the shadow of revival tents actually strike me as the most beneficent: I gather that they function as de facto Narcotics Anonymous chapters where people really do pray for one another, where their kitchens double as food pantries for down-on-their-luck congregants, where people sing together in a group of friends every Sunday and legitimately do head to the Old Country Buffet feeling happier than when they woke up.
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