Don’t you dare call them Jewish sticky buns. This rolled pastry laced with sugar, raisins, and ground nuts so named for its spiral shape (schnecken is German for “snail”) is possibly the perfect ...

Food is a great way to connect with people, and making food together can help to amplify that. It’s also a wonderful way to ...

This article originally appeared in The Nosher. Russian tea biscuits are so much a part of Cleveland’s landscape that locals are surprised to learn that these rugelach-like pastries are from their ...

Third-generation baker George Greenstein spent his life mastering dough recipes for European classics and Jewish holiday baking. In the 20 years that he owned and operated The Cheesecake King on New ...

In an early chapter of “American Pastoral,” by Philip Roth (whose food writing I’ve celebrated before), Nathan Zuckerman, the novel’s narrator, describes the rugelach a former classmate has brought to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tuesday is Christmas Eve, and Hanukkah starts Wednesday. If you're looking for ready-to-go options for your celebrations, The Goddess and Grocer has a lot to offer. They have a ...

In many observant Jewish homes, there are mezuzahs affixed to door frames. The narrow, ornate cylinders contain a small prayer scroll and are touched upon entering or leaving. This signifies both the ...

Jennifer Stempel is a recipe developer, cooking instructor and author of “With a Needle and Thread: A Jewish Folktale from Cuba,” a children’s book that will be out in October. A classically trained ...

Where can you get a good sort-of-Mexican babka in this town? OK, maybe that’s not a question anyone in Chicago has ever even asked, but that’s not going to stop me from giving you a very good answer: ...