Hamentashen photo credit: Flickr user garlandcannon
While there are many delicious options if you're looking for
delicious, savory jewish cuisine—a matzo ball here, a pile of pastrami there, a
knish in the middle—we are, as a people, lacking overall in the sweets
department. I've never been a huge fan of babka or halva, and while everyone
likes a nice blintz, it's no match for even the worst cupcake. That's why you
have to act fast to get to Breads Bakery near Union square, the new off-shoot
of the famous Israeli bakery Lehamim. Breads sells a hyped chocolate babka on a
regular basis, but they're currently selling chocolate hamentashen, those
triangular, usually fruit-filled cookies made for Purim, and since the holiday
just ended and these cookies take like tiny, rich chocolate cakes of biblical
greatness, you need to get there and eat one ASAP before they end of the
holiday and my greed means they're all gone.
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