Tablet Magazine named their “Top Hamantaschen” today, and Russ & Daughters is the winner. They write:
As Purim approaches, it’s time to pass judgment on one of the most pressing issues of the day: where to find good hamantashen.
Tablet Magazine investigated. A meticulous and hungry bunch, we ordered hamantashen from bakeries in six cities across five [...]
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Tablet Tests Top Hamantaschen, Names Russ & Daughers The Winner
February 26th, 2010 · 4:13 pm
Tags: Hamantaschen, holiday, Holidays, Press, Purim, Tablet
Chicken Soup and the Russ & Daughters Get Well Soon Package
November 20th, 2009 · 8:08 pm
With cold season well underway, we all know someone who is under the weather. Send the gift of comfort and care with the Get Well Soon Package. What could be more nourishing for body and soul than homemade chicken soup?
Featured in The New York Times (11/22/09), this Russ family recipe has 100 years of tender [...]
Tags: Chicken Soup, Courier, Delivery, gift packages, Press, Soup, The New York Times
Shavout Special: Homemade Blintzes
May 28th, 2009 · 1:32 pm
Shavout starts tonight at sundown and the Russ & Daughters kitchen is cooking lots of fresh blintzes, perfect for the occasion. (On this holiday, it is customary to eat dairy food and desserts.)
Stop by Russ & Daughters to pick up our Homemade Blintzes - light crepes filled with a sweet mixture of fresh farmer cheese, [...]
Tags: Blintzes, Holidays, In the Store, Shavout
Our Newest Employee
December 18th, 2008 · 2:27 pm
Joseph Vargas, age 7, discusses business with the boss, Joshua Russ Tupper
It’s all-hands-on-deck every day during the busy holiday season at Russ & Daughters. Herman Vargas’s son, Joseph, age 7, is joining us too. Joseph is a fantastic bagel sorter and a budding herring expert (and, he looks like a very small Barack Obama). We’re [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, employees, Herman Vargas, Holidays, Joseph Vargas, Photo, staff, Style
Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
November 24th, 2008 · 6:13 pm
As another holiday approaches, it seems the perfect time to share with you a great moment from this fall’s High Holidays. The Russ & Daughters erev Yom Kippur line is legendary. Throughout that day, each year, a crowd gathers, numbers are clutched, stories and recipes are swapped, friendships and shidduchs are made, and this past [...]
Tags: Alina Sheffi, customers, erev, holiday, Holidays, klezmer, line, Metropolitan Klezmer, music, store, Yom Kippur
Welcome
November 10th, 2008 · 7:00 am
Welcome to Lox Populi, the place to head for daily updates about all things related to Russ & Daughters: bits of history, tastes of new treats, recipes, customer stories, traditions, anecdotes, kvetching, and kvelling.
But we can’t do it without the lox and we can’t do it without the people. So, please send us your stories [...]
Tags: introduction, Lox Populi, submissions
