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Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fat Tuesday event raises awareness on human trafficking
SALEM, Ohio (WKBN) — While many bought Paczki to celebrate Fat Tuesday, others used it as a time to combine delicious food with a good cause. The Salem Kiwanis Club hosted Fat Tuesday Chef Tasting Tuesday evening where 20 'celebrity chefs' put together their best recipes for the event Tuesday evening at the club. The 200 people who bought tickets got to sample the spread and proceeds went to FreeThree, which provides services locally for the trafficked and vulnerable. 'We get to celebrate and we get to eat great food but it means everything to us because we are seeing the community respond and saying, 'Not here, not now, not on our watch.' You cannot have someone for sale. You cannot exploit our kids in our Valley and so, to that and see the community partner with us, it means everything,' said FreeThree Executive Director Amy Bordon. Events like the Fat Tuesday Chef Tasting help FreeThree create more awareness and help victims of trafficking. The group would like to raise more money for after-care housing. Tino DiCenso contributed to this story. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Where to get paczki in metro Detroit for Fat Tuesday 2025
Paczki Day, a longtime tradition celebrated in metro Detroit, is coming up this week. It's time to get ready for the day of indulgence, which arrives just before the start of the Christian season of Lent — a time of reflection, giving and fasting leading up to Easter. The day is also known Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday and Mardi Gras. Around metro Detroit, grocery stores and bakeries (especially local Polish bakeries) are ready for the paczki action. Bakers are preparing tens of thousands of traditional or specialty paczki dusted with powdered sugar or covered in a sweet glaze and oozing with jelly, custard or cream fillings. As always, prices vary place by place, by flavor and by specialty paczki. At Hamtramck's New Palace Bakery, which calls itself 'Paczki Headquarters' on its website, prices are up $1 a dozen. They range $32.95 to $42.95 per dozen. 'We try to keep prices low so everyone can enjoy the tradition,' said Suzy Ognanovich of the family-owned establishment. 'We make them fresh daily and will be pretty much baking around the clock.' Ognanovich said raspberry and custard paczki are the most popular and prune is the most traditional. Customers also enjoy the bakery's specialty and fancy paczki. This year, the bakery's new flavor is 'Cook-zki.' It's a cookie butter buttercream paczki sprinkled with cookie crumbs. Villa Bakery in Garden City started making a variety of specialty paczki three week ago. They include Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and bumpy cake varieties. The bumpy cake is a paczki sliced open and filled with vanilla buttercream with more buttercream piped on top. It's finished with melted chocolate fudge. Villa Bakery's specialty paczki are available only until Saturday. Because of the time it takes to make them, they won't be available on Monday or Fat Tuesday, said Candy VanLue of the family-owned bakery. Starting Monday, Villa Bakery will offer a variety of fruit-filled paczki plus its popular cannoli cream paczki. Vanlue said the business is paying more for the paczki shells it sources, but prices are the same as last year. Per paczki, it's $3.75 for cannoli cream, $3 for custard-filled or chocolate mousse, and $2 for fruit-filled Artisan Foods in Detroit's Fisher Building and downtown Trenton has a brioche paczki. Owner Chelsie Brymer described it as pastry made with brioche dough and fillings of different flavors. Promenade, where everything is scratch-made, will offer the brioche paczki at both locations. One variety is filled with plum apple butter and topped with a citrus glaze, while another features Biscoff cookie butter custard. They're $4.50 each. One metro Detroit restaurant is opting not to make paczki this year. At the Three Brothers restaurant in Plymouth, which offers traditional Polish food, paczki are off the menu. In a Facebook post, the restaurant cited 'rising cost of eggs and staffing constraints.' Here's a sampling of places where you will find paczki. Many local grocery chains and independent grocery stores also have paczki. And if you're in search of paczki early, many of the bakeries listed below open early with special hours. Coney Paczki will be offered on Fat Tuesday starting at 9 a.m. and available until sold out. They're made with American Coney Island's famous hot dogs and topped with chili, mustard and onions — all nestled into glazed but unfilled paczki that are split like hot dog buns. 114 W Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; The center has traditional paczki flavors for walk-in customers. Online orders are also being taken and can be picked up anytime through Tuesday. On Tuesday, the center opens at 6 a.m. and paczki will be available until sold out. 2975 E. Maple Road, Troy; 248-689-3636 or Paczki will be on sale in the banquet center on Monday and Tuesday. A dozen paczki are $38.99. On Tuesday from noon to 4 p.m., the clubs will hold its Paczki Day party with Polish music, Polish street food, a full bar and paczki for sale. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. 33204 Maple Lane, Sterling Heights; 586-264-7990. Paczki will be available 6 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and starting at 5 a.m. until they're sold out. This year, Avon will have a cheesecake flavor among its varieties that include raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, apple, custard and cream. 45324 Woodward Ave., Pontiac; 248-333-2121. Traditional fruit flavors and a chocolate paczki are available, according to its website. Other flavors include cannoli, buttercream, cream cheese and prune. 1532 N. Telegraph Road, Dearborn; 313-562-0986 or The family-owned stores in Hamtramck and Sterling Heights offer a variety of paczki made from a recipe brought over from Poland, according to a previous Free Press story. 3317 Caniff, Hamtramck or 423 Van Dyke, Sterling Heights. Cannoli, custard, or tiramisu-filled paczki are available, plus a variety of fruit-filled flavors. 15550 N. Haggerty Road, Northville; 734-420-1100 or Doors open at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, and a dozen-plus varieties will be offered. 9101 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck (313) 873-9000. Normally closed on Monday, Dutch Girl Donuts will be open. You can place advance orders for a minimum of three dozen. No regular doughnuts will be sold on Monday. 19000 Woodward Ave., Detroit. (313) 826-6005 or The establishment, which is celebrating more than 90 years in downtown Trenton, has apple, custard, lemon and raspberry paczki this year, according to its Facebook page. 2636 W. Jefferson Ave., Trenton; 734-676-1940 or Fruit-filled, mousse-filled and specialty paczki such as banana Oreo split are available now until Tuesday. They'll also be available every Friday during March. 37458 Five Mile Road, Livonia; 734-464-1855 or Irena's, within the Srodek's plaza on Mound Road, offers handmade paczki in a variety of flavors at the bistro and next door at Srodek's Campau Quality Sausage Co. Call 586-997-0950. Seven different box options with a variety of paczki are offered. The bakery's 2025 flavor is Cook-zki, a cookie butter buttercream paczki. 9833 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-875-1334 or The market will open at 6 a.m. Tuesday for paczki sales, according to a recorded phone message. 2938 E. Maple Road, Troy. Both locations will have a limited quantity on Tuesday. The Detroit location is inside the Fisher Building. 2627 W. Jefferson Ave., Trenton, and 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit; 734-307-7061 or A variety of flavors including plum, strawberry, raspberry, rose hip, custard, and lemon will be available. 9601 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck Open 6 a.m. with at least a dozen varieties of fruit-filled and cream-filled paczki. 11300 Conant St., Hamtramck; 313-368-9214. Five flavors, including cannoli and Boston cream, will be offered at the Woodhaven location. Doors open at 7 a.m. in Woodhaven for paczki sales. 16125 West Rd., Woodhaven; 734-672-6018 or Cannoli and Bavarian cream paczki will be available at the Southgate location inside Trentwood Market at 11055 Allen Road. Specialty paczki, including Reese's Pieces and bumpy cake, are available only until Saturday. This family-owned bakery will have its top-selling cannoli cream and custard-filled paczki plus a variety of fruit-filled and chocolate mousse-filled paczki on Monday and Fat Tuesday. 6237 Middlebelt Road, Garden City; 734-425-6245. Both Yellow Light Donuts locations will offer paczki sourced from Almont Baking Co. and dipped in Yellow Light's signature house-made glazes. A half-dozen mix of paczki varieties sells for $22. On Tuesday, paczki will be available 7 a.m.-2 p.m. at Yellow Light Donuts, 14447 E. Jefferson in Detroit, and at its spot inside the Michigan Central Station in Corktown. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Paczki in metro Detroit 2025: Where to find Fat Tuesday treat
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Egg prices not plunging spirts for Paczki tradition
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — Fat Tuesday is next week, and you may have to spend more on some traditional treats to celebrate. Marta Mazur has been behind the counter at Krakus Polish Deli and Bakery since 2012, and this time of year things tend to get a little busy. 'It's fun to also educate people about a little bit of my culture,' Mazur said. 'So I enjoy it tremendously.' Fat Tuesday is still a few days away, but in Poland, the Paczki tradition gets a little premature head start. 'In Poland, they celebrate it on Thursday, which is called Fat Thursday in Poland,' Mazur said. 'And then on Tuesday, when we celebrate the Fat Tuesday, that's when they finish off their drinking.' The prized Paczki is full of rich ingredients like butter and eggs, so the bill might be a little steeper this year thanks to soaring prices on a key ingredient kneaded to make it all come together. 'For us right now, it's trying to find the stuff, so finding eggs was such a challenge like a week ago, so I couldn't even start earlier than this,' Mazur said. So Marta and her staff have their work cut out for them. They've already raised prices by a quarter — $2.25 to 2.50 per Paczki — and are focusing on taking orders ahead of time so they're prepped with Paczki once Fat Tuesday arrives. 'I don't have as much for walk-ins. So walk-ins are probably going to sell out pretty quickly, especially on a Tuesday,' Mazur said. Thursday morning they had pumped out eight batches, each containing nine dozen Paczki, to fill various orders that had already been placed. 'I have my regulars who are absent minded and they're like, 'Oh yeah, you were supposed to set me some aside. Well you didn't call but I knew that at the last minute they were going to call, so I usually have a little bit of a backup for all of those regulars,' Mazur said. It's a labor of love that just takes a little pre-planning, no matter what day you're celebrating. 'We're still celebrating, there's no way of getting away from it,' Mazur said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
