One of the lesser-known jewels of Jewish holiday food is available until Saturday, the end of Hanukkah. AO & Co. has sufganiyot – that’s a long “o” and the last syllable is emphasized – from noon until they sell out, through Saturday. The festival celebrates the oil for lamps not burning out, which means fried food to celebrate. Latkes, the potato pancakes, are apparently mostly an American invention – they were originally made with cheese, it turns out – but sufganiyot are very Israeli.
They’re doughnuts, jelly doughnuts, to be precise, with a wonderful tender and rich brioche/challah type of dough and just a little powdered sugar on top, but not enough that my sweatshirt got powdered. And these are big guys, almost 4 inches in diameter.
Only available this week. Hurry up or wait until next year!
AO & Co. Market & Cafe
1641 Tower Grove Ave.
314-899-0991
http://www.bengelina.com/
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