Books & Authors
Author of ‘Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food’ Speaks Tonight at Darien Library
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Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, will be the featured speaker at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 8 as part of Darien Library’s “Meet the Authors” series. When Laura Silver’s favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs. Stahl’s bakery in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to an Italian pasta maker in New Jersey — and on to a hunt across three continents for the pastry that shaped her identity. Starting in New York, she tracks down heirs to several knish dynasties and discovers that her own family has roots in a Polish town named Knyszyn.