In many places, women stormed city halls, symbolically taking power for one day - which is why carnival’s Fat Thursday in this region is traditionally called Weiberfastnacht, or the carnival of ...

Fat Thursday—the Thursday before Lent—ushers in the last days of pączki season, culminating in Pączki Day on the following Tuesday. A food tradition brought to the US in the 19th century by ...

This also means that when I came across National Pastry Week, Paczki Day, and Fat Thursday I had to write about them. Uncharacteristically of me, I’m actually going to start from the end with ...

Preparation method: Crumble the yeast into a bowl, add a spoonful of sugar, and a bit of warm milk. Set aside for a few minutes until the yeast begins to activate. Sift the flour into a large bowl ...

Another – far less known and far more vivid – saying is the warning: ‘Those who don’t eat a stack of pączki on Fat Thursday will have an empty barn and their field destroyed by mice’. As the last ...

They are also bigger and plumper; the shape is more like a sphere. In Poland, the last Thursday before Lent begins is called Fat Thursday. So the splurge day was Feb. 27. A small amount of grain ...