One of the most popular foods in Jewish cuisine, a knish can be filled with cheese, mushrooms or other vegetables and grains, chicken livers, corned beef or beef and potato, to name a few choices.

The word knish (pronounced kuh-nish) might not be in everyone’s vocabulary, but my mother has fond memories of this Jewish comfort food. On the weekends, she would go shopping with my grandmother on ...

Like its fellow Europeans steaming in the hot dog cart — frankfurters, sauerkraut and pretzels — the knish has by now achieved a pretty solid standing in American society, such that its ancestral ...

The first time I had a knish was a formidable moment. My mother went to a Jewish deli and brought a few home, in addition to a slew of other delights, but my tiny, grubby hands were only attracted to ...