Three chances to taste KnisheryNYC for free!

Once we get you hooked, we know you'll be back for more. Knishes have that effect on people. After all, all the cool kids are doing it...

Hello fellow knishophiles,

There are a bunch of things bubbling for the Spring and Summer, but I can only announce three of them right now. Fortunately for you, two of the three involve you tasting some KnisheryNYC knishes for the amazing price of FREE!

The film for which we were interviewed and filmed while making knishes, If These Knishes Could Talk, is finally being released and they're doing a round of storytelling events in every borough of the city. KnisheryNYC will be at two of the events, feeding gratis minis to a noshing crowd. Either follow this link, or  peep these details: we'll be at two of these free events, giving out samples of our wares:

Queens
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
7:30 pm
New York Irish Center
10-40 Jackson Avenue, L.I.C., NYC.
#7 to Vernon-Jackson; G to 21st/Van Alst. http://www.newyorkirishcenter.org/

Brooklyn
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
7:30 pm
Secret Loft
255 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Groovy, huh? In addition, we are supplying mini-knishes to Malt & Mold so they can just give 'em away (along with beer and cheese tastings!) for their one year anniversary on Sunday, May 5th! Full sized knishes will also be available for sale and take-away.

Lastly, KnisheryNYC will be the lead sponsor of the Bluecard Team in the Five Boro Bike Tour again this year. The Bluecard is a charity that gives funds and services to Holocaust survivors who live in the United States. For more details and the opportunity to sponsor us, click here. In addition, any KnisheryNYC customer who donates $200 or more will receive two dozen knishes of your choice! (Deliverable only in NYC and NJ towns accessible by PATH.) To donate for the knishes, click here and write, "GIMME THE KNISHES" in the donor comments, and I'll be in touch within 24 hours to make arrangements!

Thanks for reading, and be feeding you soon.

Brooklyn Historical Society: Knish'd

 Want to to taste a Knishery NYC knish? Want to know what this knish noise is all about? Then come to the Brooklyn Historical Society for a lecture and tasting with Knishery NYC's guru, Laura Silver!! Knishery NYC will be providing the nosh at this mighty meeting of the knish minds!

Wednesday, April 25 - Knish History - 7:00 p.m.
What is a knish? Perhaps you've encountered the square fried version at a street cart, or come across the baked, round kind at one of New York's surviving knisheries. Join journalist and food expert Laura Silver in exploring this wrapped potato pastry of Eastern European Jewish origin through legends, songs, and tastings. Knish enthusiasts, knish veterans and the knish curious are all warmly invited to join this interactive exploration. We'll explore the history of this storied food on American shores. From the Knish Wars of Rivington Street to Mayor Rudy Guiliani's 1990s regulation of oven temperatures in the city's sidewalk food carts, the potato pocket is inextricably linked to the history of New York City. We'll conclude the class with a knish tasting. Bring your questions and memories. Tickets $10/$8 BHS members. Purchase your ticket here. This program is part of Brooklyn Jewish stories, in partnership with BHS’s Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative.

Ten bucks for an inspirational lecture that will make you believe in the knish dream, AND some handmade, artisinal knishes? Whatta bargain! The staff of Knishery NYC will be attending toward the end of the night for the tasting and to take any questions and comments about those lil' balls of oniony potato goodness.

A few points of order:

• Thank you to all who ordered Passover-style knishes! I did not write too much about these because I really struggled with getting the matzoh-meal dough to not be so...crumbly, chalky and dull, and resorted to the tricks of powdered potato gluten, adjusting water ratios and soakings, to get something that....just did not satisfy me as much as normal dough. Next year, in Jerusalem! I will try to spend more time working on the formula.
• There is still a big-ish piece of news coming down the pipe which will hopefully be announced in the next week or two, but, alas, it is not under my magical knish mind control powers....
• As previously announced, Knishery NYC is THE official sponsor of the Bluecard Team in this year's 5 Boro Bike Tour. The Bluecard gives support and direct financial aide to destitute Holocaust survivors living in the United States. You can give here, and if you give $200 or more, Knishery NYC will send you complimentary knishes (details here)

Knishery NYC Sponsors the Blue Card 5 Boro Bike Team.

During my life, I've been very lucky to be able to professionalize my hobbies. I've helped run an indie record label, I've worked as a graphic designer, and I've cooked in restaurants (as well as muck about with a certain Knishery project you may be aware of!). One life-long hobby that I've just been too fat/noncompetitive/slow to indulge in professionally is cycling. However, last year I was recruited to be the Team Captain for the Blue Card's first-ever team in the 5 Boro Bike Ride. The Blue Card is a charity that provides funds and services to the remaining Holocaust survivors who are in need. The 5 Boro Bike Ride is a huge, multi-level bike ride that tours through the entirety of NYC.


This year, Knishery NYC is proud to sponsor this team. A knish or two will be distributed to anyone who rides on the team. Additionally, any person who donates $200 or more to my fundraising goal will get one dozen knishes of their choice either delivered by bike (in the 5 Boros) or delivered overnight (in the continental USA) in mid April! Here is the link:

http://www.imathlete.com/donate/NoahWildman


Click through to read more about the event, the Blue Card, and my motivation for supporting this worthy cause.

Here is a snapshot from last year. Just think, had they waited a year, they would have had some knishes in their pockets!

From left to right: Me, Lil' Bobo, Raoul, Fontina La Rue, Heshy the Brisket Man, Shmendrick, Joyce, and Big Earl. In Front: The Knishmobile

ADDENDUM:
I was at Whole Foods on Houston today with my 2-month-old strapped to my chest. On the walk back, we passed by Yonnah Schimmel's. I stopped and stared in the window, reading the framed reviews which some seemed to date back almost to its establishment in 1910, dreaming the knish dream. Whilst in my knish-reverie, I was not noshing on one of Shimmel's potato-bombs, but I was chomping down on brown rice avocado & cucumber nori rolls. If there was something less bomb-like in YS, perhaps I would have considered it for a casual afternoon nosh... Ah, to build a less bomb-like knish, to compete with the brown rice nori rolls of the world.... reminds me of the story of my great grandpop, a rabbi who went to South America to makes some money as a goucho....but that's for another time...