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Red bean babka has arrived. (Calvin Hu/Courtesy Mamahuhu)
Posted inSmall Bites

Sesame red bean babka is the ultimate Chinese-Jewish food collab

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 3, 2025December 4, 2025

The American Jewish tradition of Chinese food on Christmas has now achieved apotheosis in the form of a unique babka, a collaboration between two Bay Area food businesses. A sesame […]

A shawarma-stuffed pita at the newly reopened Hummus Bodega in San Francisco on May 14, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inSmall Bites

Hummus Bodega reopens in San Francisco; Babka popups around the Bay; Ode to Sammy’s Roumanian in Santa Rosa

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 15, 2024May 23, 2024
Dana Koschitzky's babka. (Photo/Dafna Adler)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Israeli baker’s babkas are selling like hotcakes in Napa

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 31, 2023February 1, 2023
Pizza babka (Photo/Micah Siva)
Posted inRecipe

You love pizza. You love babka. How about some savory pizza babka?

Micah Siva by Micah Siva October 17, 2022
close up of a hand brushing something on the top of a row of babkas
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Fire Swamp’s bagels and babka are sizzlin’ hot at Novato market

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 26, 2021
Sadie's Babka in chocolate and cinnamon. (Photo/Courtesy Sara Eisen)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Sadie’s Babka arrives on the scene with a sweet family story

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
Ayélet Turgeman Nuchi in her Palo Alto shop
Posted inSmall Bites

Babka-only bakery forced to close after dispute with landlord

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 10, 2020February 19, 2020
Offerings at Babka by Ayélet in Palo Alto
Posted inSmall Bites

Babka by Ayélet launches brunch menu; Dashe Cellars leaving Oakland for Alameda

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 24, 2019September 24, 2019
a loaf of babka dusted with powdered sugar
Posted inOrganic Epicure

This new Silicon Valley bakery sells nothing but babka — nine flavors of it

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 2, 2019September 24, 2019
Babka babka bakba! (Photo/Flickr-joyosity CC BY 2.0)
Posted inJewish Life

Seven flavors of babka headed to Palo Alto

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

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