gribenes

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Etymology

From Yiddish גריבענעס

Noun

gribenes (uncountable)

1. A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions
   • 2008 February 20, “Letters”, New York Times:

     But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.

2. Cracklings from rendered chicken fat
   • Calvin Trillin, The Tummy Trilogy anthology, New York: Noonday Press (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), 1974, p. 166 (variant spelling: greven); originally published in Alice, Let's Eat