If holidays are flavors, gifts are memories.

By Gwen Thompson

Comfort Food for a Cold Climate

For Old World Polish staples, look no farther than Bogusha’s Restaurant & Deli on Stevens Avenue. “I cook my food and freeze it, and customers buy it frozen to take home and eat at home,” says owner Bogumila Pawlaczyk. “For Christmas I sell pierogies by the dozen. I make a special pierogi filled with mushrooms that you serve with red borscht only for Christmas. White kielbasa that’s smoked, not cooked, is also very traditional for the holidays. I make stuffed cabbage and hunter’s stew, and I sell Polish babka and ginger cookies for the holidays. Goulash is from Hungary, but I make that too, because food from different Slavic countries is similar—potato pancakes are everywhere!—but my customers like my way of cooking, and I cook for them what they like.” 

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