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Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article . com>,
> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>
> > Bart in Brno wrote:
> >
> > > lid writes:
> > > >tert in seattle wrote:
> > > >> writes:
> > > >>
> > > >>>Can anyone direct me to some really authentic German bakeries in
New
> > > >>>York City or Westchester, NY?
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Thanks in advance!
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> just out of curiosity... what sorts of things would you expect to
find
> > > >> at a German bakery?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >Not the OP but the following come to mind: apple strudel, hearty dark
> > > >rye bread, apple kuchen, bienenstich, black forest cake and this time
of
> > > >year Christmas stollen.
> > >
> > > thanks george
> > >
> > > what about these things: strudel, gugelhupf, krapfen, knudlen
> > >
> > > is there a meaningful distinction between "German" & "Viennese"?
> >
> >
> > Don't forget "Hungarian"...NYC (Manhattan at least) once was home to
> > large numbers of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians. They and their
> > businesses tended to cluster in the "Yorkville" neighborhood, there
> > were tons of restos, bakeries, coffee houses, and the like. These days
> > as the older folks have died off few vestiges of old Yorkville
> > remain...not unlike here in Chicago where a mere handful of the old
> > German - Central European places remain (but Chicago IS the only place
> > in North America with a Viennese Julius Meinl kaffeehaus).
>
> Margaret is still sad about it all.

IIRC the very last Hungarian resto in the area closed last year or so, there
was an article in the _NY Times_ about it...

There is a grand total of ONE Magyar place still extant in Chicago; a few
German places hang on and in the suburbs there are still a few Bohemian
joints. A number of Polish places abound but then the Polish population
here is dynamic, it's not dying out...

The nabe where I live (Lakeview) was once very heavily German, before heavy
urbanization (pre - 1900) many Germans commercially raised cabbages,
potatoes, and the like in the sandy soil. Lotsa beer was brewed here too
and you can still see the brewer's trademarks on some of the older brick
tavern buildings...

Now alas all is becoming homogenized :-|

--
Best
Greg