When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop in New York closed it doors, she started to investigate why it shut down. And that led to a years-long research project, she tells Weekend Edition's Rachel ...

BROOKLINE — A knish is one delightfully simple dish. Take dough, add filling, bake or fry, and you have the ultimate handheld comfort food, sold in many Jewish delicatessens. The little rounds enjoyed ...

A world-class knish and all the trimmings at Ben’s Kosher Deli. Photo: Melissa Hom The knish, when you really stop to think about it, is a pretty hilarious food: Eastern European–Jewish in origin (the ...

Like its fellow Europeans steaming in the hot dog cart — frankfurters, sauerkraut and pretzels — the knish has by now achieved a pretty solid standing in American society, such that its ancestral ...

“Proust had his Madeleine, Jewish New Yorkers had their knishes,” writes Laura Silver in her new book “Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food.” Silver, a food writer and self-proclaimed knish ...

The knish is ready for its comeback. The borough’s knisheries — once as common as bagel stores and pizzerias — have all closed, but Park Sloper Laura Silver thinks that a potato pie renaissance is ...

The potato pastry has been a staple of on-the-go food in Brooklyn since the early 1900s, but its luster started to fade toward the millennium’s end. Fortunately for folks like the knish historian who ...

Manny’s new knish collaboration features Soul & Smoke smoked brisket, macaroni and cheese, plus collard greens — all stuffed into one Jewish- and barbecue-inspired nosh. You’ll have to act fast, ...

For years, Haig Schneiderman traveled from Manhattan to Queens to play tennis at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. Yet even more than honing his drop shots or whipping backhands down the line ...

Jamie and Michael Eliahu have a lot going on. They're north Raleigh parents of two young boys. They have busy jobs - Jamie is a Realtor with Allen Tate, Michael is a financial analyst. And, if that's ...