A mid-October fire at a Long Island knish factory has starved the country of square, fried Coney Island potato pies during the lead-up to the once-in-a-lifetime confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah ...

The word knish (pronounced kuh-nish) might not be in everyone’s vocabulary, but my mother has fond memories of this Jewish comfort food. On the weekends, she would go shopping with my grandmother on ...