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Paczki: Deep-fried treat made only two days a year in Brooklyn
You can only get your hands on Peter Pan Bakery s delicious paczki two days a year.
NEW YORK - Carnival celebrations may be scaled back this year but as long as you have an appetite, you can still celebrate some of New York City s tastiest Mardi Gras traditions.
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which is home to New York s largest Polish population, that tradition comes in dessert form: paczki, which are similar to doughnuts. It s heavier than a traditional doughnut and it s filled with different fillings like raspberry jams with seeds, chocolate with custard, chocolate with powder on it, or rose jam, Peter Pan Bakery co-owner Donna Siafakas said.
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Every year, as February approaches and thoughts of Christmas are long gone, European bakeries disrupt the bleakness of midwinter with windows and display cases filled with delightfully rich sweets seldom seen the rest of the year. The tradition is a hangover from the days when the Christian festival of Lent which this year begins February 17 meant giving up all that was good, like sugar, eggs, butter, and fat, for the 40 days prior to Easter. Though that tradition may have gone the way of the Middle Ages, the urge to indulge be it on Fat Thursday, Shrove Monday, or Mardi Gras remains.
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The severe winter weather wreaking havoc on sidewalks and roadways across Illinois will disrupt COVID-19 vaccination and testing efforts statewide for the rest of the week, officials said today.
Shots and swabs were put on hold at city-run sites after more than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Chicago, and the brutal conditions gripping the entire Midwest will also delay vaccine shipments coming from the federal government “over the upcoming days,” according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.
The Polish pastries known as pączki have become something of a craze in many areas. Pronounced "poonch-key" or "punch-key" (depending on who you ask), they are similar to jelly doughnuts,