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 ...

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 ...

Variations of Poland’s most traditional Easter cake, the babka, which means “grandmother” in Polish, are baked worldwide. This rich yeast loaf is called a kulich in Russia and paska in the Ukraine ...

Polish babka is one of the items served at a traditional Wigilia. (File photo) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Polish Language-Culture-History Club is holding a centuries-old tradition, Wigilia, on Dec. 11, ...

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 ...

MINERSVILLE — When the smoke from World War II cleared over Poland, there was virtually nothing left of Katherine Pehlivan’s grandparents’ possessions. The one thing that survived was her ...

Got a craving for rainbow cookies, salt-soured pickled rye, Polish babka, honey cake? Sometimes a special bread or sweet can brighten up even the darkest day. All of the following bakeries were open ...