Alabama NewsCenter — 6 Alabama cooks take a trip through international cuisine

By: Alabama Living

As a child growing up in the Detroit area, John Sunyog was used to having easy access to a variety of foods from different cultural backgrounds. “Up there you had Greek, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Polish, Jewish,” he says. So, if his mother wasn’t in a baking mood, he could find his favorite krusciki, or Polish twists, at a local bakery. “As a kid I loved eating those things.”

Another kind of love brought him south to Alabama when he moved with his fiancé to the Cullman area in 2005. Not finding the variety of food cultures he was used to, he had to go back to his mother’s recipe for the light, flaky pastries sprinkled with powdered sugar that he loved to eat. “The recipe is over 100 years old and has been passed down in my family for generations,” he says.

He likes to make the treats for a special occasion “because it takes a little bit of time to make the dough and to get everything up and going. But the outcome is definitely worth it.” (He recommends not storing them in an airtight container but in a bowl covered lightly with a towel to keep dust off.)

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