The clock in the kitchen at DJ’s European Market and Deli at 120 Boston St. in the Polish Triangle reads nearly 2 a.m., when the kitchen is usually dark, silent, and waiting on normal morning routines. But last Thursday (Feb. 8) – known as Fat Thursday in the Polish tradition - and Tuesday of this week (Feb. 13) – known as Fat Tuesday in the American tradition – were not
Eating the Polish pastries known as paczkis commonly pronounced poonch-keys or ponch-keys is a Fat Tuesday tradition before the fasting of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.
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For Fat Tuesday, also called Paczki Day, Alpine Marketplace had more than 1,000 paczkis in various flavors such as lemon, blueberry, raspberry, boston cream, chocolate and apple. Scott Trump, store
Kiedrowski’s Simply Delicious Bakery, 2267 Cooper Foster Park Road in Amherst, hosted its annual Pączki Day on Feb. 13 in celebration of Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Traditionally made the day before Ash Wednesday, pączki is fried dough, similar to a doughnut, covered in either powered or regular sugar, or filled with an array of […]