Potatoes, onions and a fat piece of pork: these humble ingredients – so essential to Polish peasant cuisine – form the base for one of Eastern Poland’s best-known dishes: babka ziemniaczana or potato ...

Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. She’s once eaten an entire loaf of babka in a single day. When I asked my ...

LITTLE ROCK — Babka is a big part of my childhood memories. If you don’t know what babka is, I guess the best way to describe it is a very spongy, briochelike yeast cake. It’s sweet and usually has a ...