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It is believed that these donuts came to Israel via Polish Jewish immigrants, along with the holiday tradition - Click the link for more details.

Jewish holiday began Sunday night and lasts all week

Plus two amazing Jewish yogurt recipes.

Plov Isnt Just a Rice Dish. It Contains Multitudes Leah Koenig © Provided by Food & Wine Photo by Rachel Vanni / Food Styling by Judy Haubert The first time I tried plov, the oil-slicked meat and rice pilaf that is beloved throughout Central Asia, was at a homely kosher restaurant in Rego Park, Queens. Growing up eating blintzes, potato latkes, and other Eastern European Jewish dishes in suburban Chicago, I was equal parts surprised and thrilled to learn that New York City is...

Palestinian Cookbook Author Reem Kassis Claims Bagels as Their Own Palestinian Cookbook Author Reem Kassis Claims Bagels as Their Own  shares First they came for the matzah ball soup, and I did not speak out — because I don’t eat matzah ball soup. Then they came for the challah, and I did not speak out — because I don’t eat challah. Then they came for the bagels… Photo courtesy Peteravivangel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I was surprised to see that bagels might originate in ...

This Hungarian coffee cake is even better than babka Advertisement This article originally appeared on The Nosher. One morning, my wife suggested I look into making a different kind of bread. Not necessarily to replace my weekly challah habit, but just to try something new. I asked what she had in mind and she mentioned monkey bread. I’d never heard of it.  So I Googled and turns out that monkey bread is actually a yeasted cake. Its origins are rooted in the immigrant Hungarian Jewish commun...

It makes great leftovers, warm or cold, for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

You Can’t Beat a (Savory) Babka Fill your kitchen with the aroma of a freshly baked bread. Jennifer Eremeeva / MT With snow set to be a fixture for much of next week, what’s needed now is an absorbing project to keep us inside — preferably one with delicious results. And for that, you can’t beat a babka! A savory babka with mushroom filling in this case: cake meets bread, and breakfast meets dinner in this yeasty, eggy braided loaf, stuffed with delicious swirls o...

sufganiyot. As soon as the Israeli Hanukkah doughnuts start appearing in bakeries at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Kislev, weeks before the festival, Kent launches into his tastings. He samples the gamut, from the ubiquitous red jelly-filled to the decadent halva or dulce de leche-flavored, at gas stations or at high end patisseries. “I never eat an entire donut” he wrote via e-mail. By the time Hanukkah actually starts, he’s done with doughnuts and has latched on to latkes. Of cou...