IT is probably impossible for many people to hear the word “babka” and not think of the “Seinfeld” episode in which Jerry and Elaine, desperate to bring a chocolate babka to a dinner party, angrily confront another customer at a bakery who gets the last one. They settle for cinnamon, even though Elaine calls it “a lesser babka.”
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RICH TRADITION Michael London, an owner of Mrs. London’s bakery in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., drizzles chocolate on loaves of his babka.
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Michael London's babka.
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Ann Amernick makes babka at home in Chevy Chase, Md.
Jerry disagrees.
“Cinnamon takes a back seat to no babka,” he says. “Lesser babka? I think not!”
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