Category: taste test

Latkes Before Potato: Taste-testing Cheese, Buckwheat, and Chestnut Pancakes

Nothing says “Hanukkah tradition” better than a crispy potato latke, right? WRONG! Even though potato latkes have come to dominate the Hanukkah food scene here in the US in the twenty-first century, they’re actually a relative newcomer to the Jewish culinary repertoire. The potato, a native of South America, didn’t even arrive in Europe until […]

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Purim 2018 NYC Bakery Hamantaschen Roundup

Welcome to my extremely unscientific and incomplete ramble through New York City’s vast and varied hamantaschen offerings. I hit up a few spots in Manhattan, because I live here, and a few more in Brooklyn (Midwood only this year—I had grand ambitions of venturing further afield, but Brooklyn is far and getting around it is […]

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