My grandmother had a kosher Russian restaurant by Yankee Stadium for 35 years, I’m homesick for all the delicious foods I grew up with. Thank yo Frieda.
Frieda, watching this video makes me yearn for a Jewish bakery. Not something I have access to where I live in NJ. I am enjoying your videos immensely. They bring back such memories of growing up in Brooklyn. I have reached out to you about your tours, but never received a response. I would like to discuss one of your tours, please get back to me.
There's a kosher bakery here in Liverpool that sells good hamentashen, rugelach and babkas, they're decent but they don't as look as good as the ones you found. I sometimes make my own hamentashen, and I tried making a savoury one with caramelised onions and it wasn't half bad 😀
Ohhh we have rum balls in Denmark too! It's considered a classic Danish pastry over here. I never knew that, that is so fun. Thank you for the informative video, I really enjoyed it.
They are all so delicious and that Yodel looks like the Italian Giardoni we have here I know how delicious they are, because I made Babka after I watched a Jewish guy on UA-cam and believe me it came out so delicious so I can imagine how delicious are the ones from your video 👍 Good job by showing the world what mams and paps bakeries from your community can do
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Thank you 🙏. Lets put it that way, I made few Babkas and my family started complaining that they are gaining weight because of that 😂. I just made the Babka, but it was their free will to eat it 🤷🏼
Well DNA proves that Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of middle eastern men and Italian women. Thus yodel and other pastries look like Italian cakes and cookies.
Love this video yum! Also I've got to let you know, I've come across your doppelganger, the wife on Team Balmert! I was served up one of their short videos and thought she was you at first. They were doing a very silly ticktock challenge and I was like oh my that's seems a bit off brand for you, turns out it wasn't you 😂
Visited some of these bakeries today. Bought a variety of pastries, all of them lovely! The owners, not so much! However, i am glad i came to Hasidic Williamsburg. Something iv wanted to do for some years.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn ah i totally wasnt expecting you to reply Freida! I just found the gentlemen very aloof and if im honest, it felt a little hostile. No smile, no hi, can i help you.. nothing.I really enjoyed the over all experience,visiting Williamsburg and seeing it for myself(brought home some gorgeous goods) and went to mini mart (got some bits you dont see in London). Maybe im used to Americans generally being really friendly and welcoming, but these guys really wernt. So glad i came though, hopefully il do it again. Thanks for replying again Freida, love all your videos x
@@Ingi132 I'm so sorry to hear. But this is normal for Chasidim. They have to know you to be friendly. There's a bakery on Lee Avenue, Oneg Bakery, that gets a ton of tourists. They learned how to be very friendly. All other bakeries operate on Hasidic speed, which is, you kind of don't interact unless you know each other.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn i had an idea afterwards it was their way and it wasnt personal. It hasnt spoilt my overall experience. Next time il know what to expect 🙂
Hi. I saw you today giving a tour. When I passed you said hello to me I watch your utube clips so I know you. Do you know me It was cool that I met you Btw. You keep your videos positive You say it how it is. But with no rancor. That's a nice thing. Do you give tours any other places besides Williamsburg?
Hi Miriam. Are you related to the Banda in Monroe? I feel like it's always a small world. Before the pandemic I gave regular tours and food tours in Williamsburg and Boro Park, so I constantly changed it up. Right now I only give tours in Williamsburg. We'll see what's in the future -- I'd like to be able to do more videos/writing and fewer tours down the line.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yes I'm related to the bondo's from Monroe. Next time I will introduce myself If you ever do a tour in North Williamsburg. Then I would join.
Something like over 25 years ago, I was given a Ziegelmann caramel cake for a tenoyium. You have no idea how widespread it is to feature this cake. You have to try it!!!
My grandmother made hamantashen as large yeast dough filled with poppyseeds: to me the only real hamantashen. She came from Lithuania but I knew a Polish holocaust survivor in New Orleans who made the same kind as my grandmother. I thought the little cookie-like hamantashen were an American invention. But I see the very traditional Satmar are making the little cookie dough ones.
Hammantascen are actually a German pastry that was called muntashen, since they were filled with poppy seeds, or "moon". It became a purim food only because of the simmilality of the word "mun" to Hoomun...
I watched this whilst renewing my annual travel insurance and went for ‘Worldwide (including the US, Canada etc)’ instead of just ‘Worldwide’. So now I’m obviously going to have to visit NY to justify that extra £20 spend…and to eat all of this. 🤣🤷♀️
There are some options. But very few. Very few. You'd have to go to all the bakeries and ask what they have and maybe you'll come away with a handful of gluten free pastries.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynThat’s a good response. May I use it? Anyway, it was fine. I was just giving you little ribbing, elbow in the side. It made me smile
Hamen tashen reminds me of my childhood..Have you ever been to Weby's Bakery in Studio City, CA? Oh the memories...It was a proper kosher bakery in the 70's..now I think it's more of a cafe/bakery.
@@Barbara-bl7xv yes, ochel bashuk domeh l'kelev is well taken, but this is what vloggers and foodies too.; It would make no sense to take the food home.
@@jsw7814 I don't care what kind of job such people have. She knows these rules. For example, you could just show the food. It also makes no sense to watch her eat....
@@Barbara-bl7xv I’m appalled that you’re presuming to tell a grown woman how you think she ought to behave! The shame you’re trying to cast is terribly misguided, for there is no harm occurring. I know the passage you’re speaking of, and frankly no one SHOULD be offended by Freida eating in public because it’s non-offensive towards anyone else - in other words, the only person she would theoretically be “insulting” is herself. I might also add that the directive of which you speak was written in a VERY different time. Its purpose was likely to encourage people to keep kosher and share meals with their family in an age when food was far less plentiful and meals more infrequent. Circumstances have changed, and now observance of this custom is generally for the sake of piety. But it bears pointing out that those scolding other adults for not abiding one’s own religious preferences are not made any more holy for doing so. Does it really need stating that each person is at liberty to incorporate or refrain from whatever tradition resonates with them? How would YOU feel if someone were to attempt to impose their religious edicts upon you? In Israel, where Judaism is the national religion, people eat on the street without censure - but somehow you’ve concluded a heightened standard should exist in secular New York?!?! Clearly all those centuries of persecution due to religious differences guide the behavior of some more than others. To over-state the obvious: “religious rules” do not apply to city streets, however much some might like them to. The public is still at liberty to traverse the sidewalks and patronize the shops - and apparently the shopkeepers are enlightened enough to leave matters of personal observance to the discretion of the individual. But in the event someone WERE to approach a public diner in Brooklyn and harangue them for public food consumption, this New Yorker can assure you it wouldn’t be the diner running afoul of applicable “rules.”
My grandmother had a kosher Russian restaurant by Yankee Stadium for 35 years, I’m homesick for all the delicious foods I grew up with. Thank yo Frieda.
in about three weeks I´ll be in New York, so much looking forward to walk from bakery to bakery 🤩
Frieda, watching this video makes me yearn for a Jewish bakery. Not something I have access to where I live in NJ. I am enjoying your videos immensely. They bring back such memories of growing up in Brooklyn. I have reached out to you about your tours, but never received a response. I would like to discuss one of your tours, please get back to me.
I am so sorry! Sometimes messages fall through the cracks. Can you write me again? Mail@friedavizel.com
There's a kosher bakery here in Liverpool that sells good hamentashen, rugelach and babkas, they're decent but they don't as look as good as the ones you found. I sometimes make my own hamentashen, and I tried making a savoury one with caramelised onions and it wasn't half bad 😀
Sounds better than just "not half bad". I'm a fan of dough and sautee'd onions.
Yum!!! Can you believe we have something similar to rum balls in the south of Italy? They are called "riccetti" (something like "tiny hedgehogs")
Ohhh we have rum balls in Denmark too! It's considered a classic Danish pastry over here. I never knew that, that is so fun. Thank you for the informative video, I really enjoyed it.
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Hi Frieda - just discovered your channel and am loving your videos. Would you please share which bakery you visited for the yodel? Thanks
They are all so delicious and that Yodel looks like the Italian Giardoni we have here
I know how delicious they are, because I made Babka after I watched a Jewish guy on UA-cam and believe me it came out so delicious so I can imagine how delicious are the ones from your video 👍
Good job by showing the world what mams and paps bakeries from your community can do
Mmm, your babka I bet was divine.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn
Thank you 🙏. Lets put it that way, I made few Babkas and my family started complaining that they are gaining weight because of that 😂.
I just made the Babka, but it was their free will to eat it 🤷🏼
Well DNA proves that Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of middle eastern men and Italian women. Thus yodel and other pastries look like Italian cakes and cookies.
Frieda have you been to Lakewood NJ It is a smaller version of Williamsburg Brooklyn. I used to live about 10 minutes away from Lakewood in Brick NJ .
Wow this all looks sooooo good...
Love this video yum! Also I've got to let you know, I've come across your doppelganger, the wife on Team Balmert! I was served up one of their short videos and thought she was you at first. They were doing a very silly ticktock challenge and I was like oh my that's seems a bit off brand for you, turns out it wasn't you 😂
How did I not know there was a fresh version of Yodels!! 😃. Must find them now!,lol 😊
Yodels look delicious
It all looks good.
Thanks
Visited some of these bakeries today. Bought a variety of pastries, all of them lovely!
The owners, not so much!
However, i am glad i came to Hasidic Williamsburg. Something iv wanted to do for some years.
SO sorry to hear about your experience! What happened? Were people ignoring you?
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn ah i totally wasnt expecting you to reply Freida! I just found the gentlemen very aloof and if im honest, it felt a little hostile. No smile, no hi, can i help you.. nothing.I really enjoyed the over all experience,visiting Williamsburg and seeing it for myself(brought home some gorgeous goods) and went to mini mart (got some bits you dont see in London). Maybe im used to Americans generally being really friendly and welcoming, but these guys really wernt. So glad i came though, hopefully il do it again. Thanks for replying again Freida, love all your videos x
@@Ingi132 I'm so sorry to hear. But this is normal for Chasidim. They have to know you to be friendly. There's a bakery on Lee Avenue, Oneg Bakery, that gets a ton of tourists. They learned how to be very friendly. All other bakeries operate on Hasidic speed, which is, you kind of don't interact unless you know each other.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn i had an idea afterwards it was their way and it wasnt personal. It hasnt spoilt my overall experience. Next time il know what to expect 🙂
Hi. I saw you today giving a tour. When I passed you said hello to me
I watch your utube clips so I know you.
Do you know me
It was cool that I met you
Btw. You keep your videos positive
You say it how it is. But with no rancor.
That's a nice thing.
Do you give tours any other places besides Williamsburg?
Hi Miriam. Are you related to the Banda in Monroe? I feel like it's always a small world.
Before the pandemic I gave regular tours and food tours in Williamsburg and Boro Park, so I constantly changed it up. Right now I only give tours in Williamsburg. We'll see what's in the future -- I'd like to be able to do more videos/writing and fewer tours down the line.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yes I'm related to the bondo's from Monroe.
Next time I will introduce myself
If you ever do a tour in North Williamsburg.
Then I would join.
@@julieann4616 bondo and banda same name different spelling
@@miriambanda8427 where does the surname come from ? Sounds like the French or Sephardic name which comes from the romance word meaning ‘good day’.
I would have to find this video. And I would have to live in Texas. :(
Something like over 25 years ago, I was given a Ziegelmann caramel cake for a tenoyium. You have no idea how widespread it is to feature this cake. You have to try it!!!
I heard! But it’s parve, how can it even be good?
Enjoyed the video, even though I can't eat any of the goodies being that I am a diabetic.
Black-and-white cookies are also so delicious
I call them Jim Crow cookies. Blacks are on one side of the river and whites on the other, and the races never interact with each other 🤣
My grandmother made hamantashen as large yeast dough filled with poppyseeds: to me the only real hamantashen. She came from Lithuania but I knew a Polish holocaust survivor in New Orleans who made the same kind as my grandmother. I thought the little cookie-like hamantashen were an American invention. But I see the very traditional Satmar are making the little cookie dough ones.
we need more food videos.
It's coming, stay tuned!
Don't forget the brocha
Hammantascen are actually a German pastry that was called muntashen, since they were filled with poppy seeds, or "moon". It became a purim food only because of the simmilality of the word "mun" to Hoomun...
wow, fascinating! We used to do hamentashen with "mun" but that went out of fashion. My mother says mun is just the poor man's chocolate.
I just want to go to Williamsburg, walk through the streets and just nibble on all the goodies😋
Do it. I would recommend that you dress conservatively if you want to feel comfortable.
@@jsw7814 How do you know she does not already dress conservatively?
You should offer a food tour!
I used to! It was a lot more work. I do feed the people on my tours; different food depending on the day, my mood, what's sold. Good stuff!
I ❤ gluten free biegels. Question ? How many rum balls could you eat before getting drunk ? 😂
YUMMY YUMMY.
Thanks!
thank you so much for the gift! I hope you enjoyed the pastries by proxy :) :)
Yes
I watched this whilst renewing my annual travel insurance and went for ‘Worldwide (including the US, Canada etc)’ instead of just ‘Worldwide’. So now I’m obviously going to have to visit NY to justify that extra £20 spend…and to eat all of this. 🤣🤷♀️
Ha ha, oh no, at least it’ll all be worth it Rachel 1000% worth it.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn So, then I’ll see you for the tour where you have to run 8 miles, then eat 8 pastries, right?! 😉😂
@@RachG YES THAT"S THE TOUR!!!
😂😂😁😁😂😂😂😂
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn ability to run the full 8 miles is not essential; however all attendees MUST be able to eat 8 pastries.
why am i today watching this? Must be crazy :)
Yeah, no food related videos for a day like today - except maybe weird foods...
Rugelach ✅
Mine turned out extra tiny. Like if a standard rugelach had babies. 😂😂
I’ll leave this one to the bakeries I think!!
Puppy rugelach!!! 😂😂😂 It must be heartbreaking to eat them!!!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn hahahaa!!
No puppies (or poppies for that matter) were harmed in the making of my rugelach. 🤣🤣
@@RachG phew!!!!!
😍😋
I wonder if they do gluten free pastries? I miss all of my Jewish pastries having to be gluten free.
There are some options. But very few. Very few. You'd have to go to all the bakeries and ask what they have and maybe you'll come away with a handful of gluten free pastries.
Love your videos. Did you really say biggest a_ _ rumball? 4:47
This was a long time ago. Present me is not responsible for two years ago me 😅
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynThat’s a good response. May I use it? Anyway, it was fine. I was just giving you little ribbing, elbow in the side. It made me smile
Hamen tashen reminds me of my childhood..Have you ever been to Weby's Bakery in Studio City, CA? Oh the memories...It was a proper kosher bakery in the 70's..now I think it's more of a cafe/bakery.
Ok I have become Very hungry. Too bad I am 2579 miles from you 😭
Williamsburg is another Bene Brak
RUM BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Nothing equals Rum Balls!!!!!!!!!!!
ha ha! I like 'em too.
You are so fine ,what happened to your Yiddishkite
What makes you think she doesn’t have any
The profanity is offensive.
Why do you have to eat in public all the time? 🤔 Actually, it will not welcome in the Haredi community and is not a good behavior.
Lol are you serious?
@@jsw7814 Yes, because it's true. It's not okay on the road. No problem in a restaurant or café. Also written in the Talmud.
@@Barbara-bl7xv yes, ochel bashuk domeh l'kelev is well taken, but this is what vloggers and foodies too.; It would make no sense to take the food home.
@@jsw7814 I don't care what kind of job such people have. She knows these rules. For example, you could just show the food. It also makes no sense to watch her eat....
@@Barbara-bl7xv I’m appalled that you’re presuming to tell a grown woman how you think she ought to behave! The shame you’re trying to cast is terribly misguided, for there is no harm occurring. I know the passage you’re speaking of, and frankly no one SHOULD be offended by Freida eating in public because it’s non-offensive towards anyone else - in other words, the only person she would theoretically be “insulting” is herself.
I might also add that the directive of which you speak was written in a VERY different time. Its purpose was likely to encourage people to keep kosher and share meals with their family in an age when food was far less plentiful and meals more infrequent. Circumstances have changed, and now observance of this custom is generally for the sake of piety. But it bears pointing out that those scolding other adults for not abiding one’s own religious preferences are not made any more holy for doing so.
Does it really need stating that each person is at liberty to incorporate or refrain from whatever tradition resonates with them? How would YOU feel if someone were to attempt to impose their religious edicts upon you?
In Israel, where Judaism is the national religion, people eat on the street without censure - but somehow you’ve concluded a heightened standard should exist in secular New York?!?! Clearly all those centuries of persecution due to religious differences guide the behavior of some more than others.
To over-state the obvious: “religious rules” do not apply to city streets, however much some might like them to. The public is still at liberty to traverse the sidewalks and patronize the shops - and apparently the shopkeepers are enlightened enough to leave matters of personal observance to the discretion of the individual. But in the event someone WERE to approach a public diner in Brooklyn and harangue them for public food consumption, this New Yorker can assure you it wouldn’t be the diner running afoul of applicable “rules.”