Potatonik is related to kugel, except that it contains yeast, making it a hybrid between a potato kugel and a potato/onion bread. It used to be available in Jewish bakeries in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side (I would imagine in the Bronx as well, but we rarely went to the Bronx). It's a runner up to latkes in my opinion, and better than kugel, which tends to get hard and heavy if you don't eat it immediately. When we lived in Stuart, Florida (not a mecca for Jews at the time we lived there), there was a retired Jewish baker who worked for the Jensen Beach Publix. The way I was introduced to him was noticing one Friday afternoon that there was fresh potatonik at the bakery counter. I asked one of the bakery ladies how in the world they came to carry this product and they introduced me to the baker, who had retired to Port St. Lucie and didn't like being retired. He brought some of his New York style Jewish (Ashkenazi) recipes to the little Publix where the few Jews liv
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