Potatoes, onions and a fat piece of pork: these humble ingredients – so essential to Polish peasant cuisine – form the base for one of Eastern Poland’s best-known dishes: babka ziemniaczana or potato ...

When I asked my colleagues for their favorite babka recipes, I truly expected deafening silence. I wondered how many were going through the challenges of rolling and twisting and braiding to get to a ...

LITTLE ROCK — Babka is a big part of my childhood memories. If you don’t know what babka is, I guess the best way to describe it is a very spongy, briochelike yeast cake. It’s sweet and usually has a ...

When chef Stephen Stryjewski was growing up, Easter meant pierogies, kielbasa and sauerkraut, and he has continued that tradition with his own family. Dinah Rogers, The Times-PicayuneChef Stryjewski's ...

In recent months, a homey Eastern European dessert has been garnering the sort of hysterical enthusiasm Instagramming diners typically reserve for Dominique Ansel’s cronuts, or the candy-colored ...