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French Onion Hamantaschen

JL;DR SUMMARY As Purim approaches, Leah Koenig introduces a creative twist on traditional hamantaschen with a recipe inspired by French onion soup. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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RecipeJewish CookingPurimHamantaschenCheeseLeah KoenigThe Jewish TableCaramelized OnionsFrench Onion SoupSavory

Places mentioned

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"my friends and I would make regular treks across the Canadian border for sandwiches at Caf Santropol in Montreal."
Vermont, United States
"Twenty-some years ago, when I was a college student in Vermont, my friends and I would make regular treks across the Canadian border."
Berkeley, California, United States
"in the half-century club. But as lovely as it is that these culinary icons still exist, it is hard to make the case that the movement they were born from still does."
Ithaca, New York, United States
"Tucked in between slices of hearty brown bread, and thickly layered with downy cream cheese was either black currant jam and sliced bananas or oil-packed tomatoes with enough wispy bean sprouts to house a family of fairies."

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