Mulgipuder
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Mulgipuder (also Mulgi puder) is pieces of potatoes mixed with pearl barley and topped with fried pork.[1]
The name literally means 'porridge from Mulgimaa (an area in southern Estonia)'; the word puder 'porridge' comes from Proto-Finnic *putro (cf. Finish puuro 'porridge'),[2] and the modifier mulgi is the genitive of mulk 'a person from Mulgimaa', derived from Latvian muļķis, muļķe 'idiot, fool'.[3]
Mulgipuder is the only Estonian national food that is in the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.[4] Some[according to whom?] claim that Mulgipuder is not in the older[when?] cookbooks. What makes this food unique to Estonia, is adding pearl barley to mashed potatoes. Many[clarification needed] foods in Mulgimaa contain barley, as a lot of barley is grown there.