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Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Dessert is the only thing worth fighting for.
Today is Paczki Day! (Pronounced "poonsh-ki".)
For those of you who are not fortunate to live in cities where there is a large concentration of Polish Americans, a paczek (singular, pronounced "pon-check") is a doughy confection filled with fruit that is served on the Tuesday before Lent. It's Mardi Gras for people that prefer to indulge with starches and fats, instead of alcohol. Mmmmm... Authentic Paczki are made with lard, spiced with rum, and filled with prune preserves. They are sublime. Unfortunatly, it's hard to find authentic paczki. Usually you just get plain-old jelly doughnuts labeled "paczki." Luckily, I have a co-worker who made a run to Hamtramck this morning, so for the first time in years I'm eating an actual paczek. I could die. WDET, Detroit's NPR station, ran a little thing about Paczki Day today. Listen to it here. 
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