Eat cookies. Wear costumes. Carouse until there’s no telling the difference between “blessed is Mordechai” and “cursed is Haman.” Give gifts of food and drink to friends, and money to the needy. Purim ...

If you’re on the hunt for the best hamantaschen, you’re in for a treat! These delightful, triangular pastries traditionally enjoyed during the Jewish holiday of Purim have found their way into the ...

Happy Purim! Yes, today is the Jewish celebration of Purim, a happy little holiday where costumes and drunken revelry are mandated, and rolling from house to house bringing gifts of food and drink is ...

You might not have heard of hamantaschen (pronounced hah-mentash-in) or Purim, the Jewish holiday these shaped filled cookies represent, but this tasty treat might just become your favorite ...

They fill my dreams; they haunt my waistline. And each year, as Purim approaches, I am seized with fear: My name is Sarah, and I am a hamantaschen addict. Raspberry, cherry, apricot, strawberry or ...

Purim is yet another Jewish holiday that follows a familiar “we were nearly wiped out, we survived, let’s eat!” template, and in this case, the food is hamantaschen — triangle-shaped cookies that are ...

Miriam Baumgartner has been doing a lot of mixing, kneading, chilling, cutting, filling and shaping in the kitchen of her Manor Township home over the past few days. She’s turning out dozens of ...

Just about every Jewish holiday has its own signature dessert: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is ushered in with honey cake; Passover is celebrated with macaroons, Hanukkah has chocolate candy ...

The poppy seed filling was something of a revelation. I finely ground a large quantity of poppy seeds in a spice grinder (it’s really a coffee grinder, but I use it for spices) and cooked them with ...

It was bound to happen. With all the crazy things bakers are doing to croissants and doughnuts, hamantaschen could hardly hope to dodge the relentless forces of confectionary innovation. Purim begins ...