Travados are Sephardi Jewish pastries made from a tender, oil-based dough shaped into half-moons and filled with a mixture of ground walnuts or almonds — sometimes both — combined with sugar, cinnamon, and occasionally raisins or currants for a faint chewiness against the ground nuts. They are baked until golden and then dipped while still […]

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Diples are Greek fried pastries made from a thin egg-based dough, stretched into sheets, cut into strips or rectangles, and rolled or folded into loose ribbons and rosettes as they fry — the shaping done directly in the hot oil with two forks or skewers in a technique that requires speed and practice. They emerge […]

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