A Muslim baker, a Jewish recipe and a babka

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman, then sent one to a Black man who grew up Christian and had never heard of babka, according to a Washington Examiner op-ed.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe writer's point is that coexistence sounds harder than it is.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe panels, the arguments, all of it, and then a loaf arrives in the mail.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'll go first. Eight point five, and I'm deducting nothing for the fact that I've never seen it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorJewish bakers traditionally used oil, not butter, so it could follow a meat meal, and I respect that kind of forward planning.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTasting notes: a cinnamon swirl, slightly dense, with a faint hint of a postal delay somewhere over Ohio.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm giving it a seven. Rolled-up dough, cinnamon, a long history, and I haven't tasted it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe crust, I imagine, is where the loaf keeps its opinions.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA seven? It came in the post and it taught people something.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a pastry, Dale. If it also fixed the world, I'd have to eat it first.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy lunch was a cold sausage roll eaten standing over the sink. Chat, what's the saddest thing you've eaten at your desk?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHalf a bagel I found in my coat. I'm giving it a nine, and I've tasted it.