A recent column featured a new food find, the Prohibition Bakery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Little did I know, this visit would take me back to some oldies too, places this native New Yorker’s ...

Kasha varnishkes is a classic Jewish comfort food — an Eastern European Ashkenazi favorite. There are no fancy flavors here: Kasha (buckwheat groats) is toasted and mixed with bow-tie noodles and lots ...

What would you do with a one-pound bag of toasted buckwheat groats, a.k.a. kasha? If you’re like most Ashkenazi Jews, you’d probably cook up kasha varnishkes, the Jewish “soul food” side dish made of ...

Remember the old commercials where peanut butter and chocolate collided into a spectacular combo that made both parts seem even tastier? A New York chef has done that. With bread. And kasha varnishkes ...