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A knish ( /ˈknɪʃ/) or knysh is an Eastern European,^[1] and Jewish snack food made popular in America by Jewish immigrants, eaten widely by Jewish and non-Jewish peoples alike.^{[citation needed]}

History

Immigrants who arrived from Ukraine sometime around 1900 brought knishes to America.^[2] Knish is a Yiddish word that was derived from the Ukrainian "knysh",^[3]^[4] meaning "a kind of bun." It is a baked or fried dumpling made of flaky dough with filling. The first knish bakery was founded in New York in 1910."^[5]

A knish consists of a filling covered with dough that is either baked, grilled, or deep fried. Knishes can be purchased from street vendors in urban areas with a large Jewish population, sometimes at a hot dog stand, or from a nearby butcher shop.

In the most traditional versions, the filling is made entirely of mashed potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions, kasha (buckwheat groats) or cheese. Other varieties of fillings feature sweet potatoes, black beans^{[disambiguation needed ]}, fruit, broccoli, tofu or spinach.

Many cultures have variations on baked, grilled, or fried dough-covered snacks similar to the knish: the Cornish pasty, the Scottish Bridie, the Jamaican patty, the Spanish and Latin American empanada, the Portuguese rissole, the Italian calzone, the South Asian samosa, the Polish pierogi, and the Middle Eastern fatayer.

Knishes may be round, rectangular or square. They may be entirely covered in dough or some of the filling may peek out of the top. Sizes range from those that can be eaten in a single bite hors d'oeuvre to sandwich-sized.

References

^ Wasserman, Tina. "Cooking: The Ultimate Jewish Finger Food". Reform Judaism Magazine. http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1537. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
^ http://books.google.com/books?id=AoWlCmNDA3QC&lpg=PT359&ots=sSSAFjbBPT&dq=origin%20of%20knish%20ukraine&pg=PT359#v=onepage&q=origin%20of%20knish%20ukraine&f=false
^ http://www.jewfaq.org/food.htm
^ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/knish
^ (Kugel, Knishes, and Other Tasty Dishes by Nina Yellin, 2001)

Potato dishes

Dumplings

American cuisine

North America	Apple dumpling Chicken and dumplings Knoephla Crab rangoon

Latin America	Pasteles Tamale Pamonha Ducana Corunda Hallaca

Asian cuisine

East Asia	Chinese: Baozi Ci fan tuan Dim sum Fun guo Har gow Hujiao bing Jau gok Jiaozi Lo mai gai Shengjian mantou Shumai Siopao Suanla chaoshou Tang bao Tangyan Taro dumpling Wonton Xiaolongbao Zhaliang Zongzi Other: Akashiyaki Buuz Dango Khuushuur Mandu Mandugwa Manduguk Mitarashi dango Momo

South East Asia	Vietnamese: Ba-wan Bánh bao Bánh chưng Bánh lá Bánh tẻ Bánh tét Other: Caozai Guo Kueh tutu Kuih kochi Nagasari

South Asia	Ada Lukhmi Samosa Modak

Central Asia	Chuchvara Manti Orama Samosa

West Asia	Gondi dumpling Khinkali Knish Kreplach Matzah ball Shishbarak

North Asia	Pelmeni

European cuisine

Eastern Europe	Bryndzové halušky Halušky Kalduny (Kundumy) Kopytka Pierogi Scovardă Shlishkes Strapačky Uszka Varenyky

Southern Europe	Agnolotti Gnocchi Ravioli

Central Europe	Capuns Kluski Knedle Knödel Maultasche Mohnnudel Pickert Schupfnudel Silesian dumplings

Western Europe	Rissole

Northern Europe	Cepelinai Kroppkaka Pitepalt Raspeball

Other

Australia	Dim sim

Africa	Kenkey

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