This week at Breads Bakery in New York City, one cookie is bound to outsell the rest. "Hamantaschen are the most perfect little cookie," said owner Gadi Peleg. "The most requested item that we get to ...

This week, Jewish people across the world will celebrate Purim, a holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from the ancient Persian empire. According to the story, Queen Esther ...

Just about every Jewish holiday has its own signature dessert: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is ushered in with honey cake; Passover is celebrated with macaroons, Hanukkah has chocolate candy ...

Hamantaschen are cookies shaped like triangles and filled with jam or poppyseeds — or, sometimes, other stuff, like pizza or marzipan sprinkles, depending on your adherence to tradition and your ...

As much as food writer and recipe developer Emily Paster loves sweet hamantaschen, she enjoys taking a broader view of Purim foods. The perfect example is her savory beef hamantaschen. “They are a bit ...

Hamantaschen have a filling in the middle, sort of like a linzer cookie, but better. Traditionally, the fillings are made from such Eastern European standards as prunes or apricots or poppy seeds.

When I was asked to speak to the student body at Phillips Exeter Academy, I thought about the irony of the situation. When I was young, Exeter had very few Jewish students, all male, and those who ...

You might not have heard of hamantaschen (pronounced hah-mentash-in) or Purim, the Jewish holiday these shaped filled cookies represent, but this tasty treat might just become your favorite ...

The mother-daughter baking team Birdie’s Batch in West Nyack, N.Y., make a goat cheese and quince paste version, among others. By Florence Fabricant For years, bakers have riffed on the recipe for ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim begins Thursday night, and the tri-cornered hamantaschen is its signature dessert. North Jersey bakers are experimenting on the old, poppy-seed filled version and now offer ...

The recipe I made comes from Marcy Cornfeld. Her sister is Judith Newmark, the longtime theater critic at the Post-Dispatch, who used to bring in her sister’s hamantaschen every year to share with her ...