Had fun with Reader’s Choice 2011. Hope you did too. Thought it was all wrapped up until I received a comment from my friend Chef Nusy.

Nusy is a friend I would not know except for this blog. We’ve never met in person, but we converse in the comments and her story inspires me.

Nusy was born and raised in Hungary. She immigrated to the United States alone at the ripe old age of 20. Did it for love.

Nusy married and now lives with her husband in California. She coaches fencing, teaches bread making, studies, and writes a blog called And Cuisine For All.

What impresses me about Nusy is her heart of freedom.

Communism anticlimactically fell in her homeland, but not much has changed for her people. So Nusy embraces life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we Yankee Doodle Dandies sometimes take for granted.

When Nusy’s request reached me, I was moved. Here’s what she wrote:

If there’s still a spot on Reader’s Choice… this is mine. While I enjoyed Milk Wars and I Like My Bike, this was the post that hit me the deepest this year; not just here—all around the blogosphere.

The impact of history on a generation of people… and the lack of impact on those born after the tragedy. As Tolkien would put it, “the sorrow of the Firstborn.” That we have seen and experienced something that no words can ever describe to those who weren’t there to see it; we stand monument to the greatest tragedy of modern times.

Chef Nusy’s Reader’s Choice is:

The Angry American