The Great Hamentaschen Hunt of 2009

First: DC really needs a good kosher bakery. I told Tweaks yesterday that I think we could easily sacrifice a cupcake place for a real one. She told me "this isn't Cleveland." She's right - in Cleveland, there are no cupcake places. The streets are, however, paved with hamantaschen and russian tea biscuits.

Second: My irrational craving was brought on by a series of events - beginning with a pictures of hamantashen on Tastespotting, continuing through an invitation to a Purim-themed happy hour that I could not attend, and probably solidifying around the fact that I didn't find any when I went casually browsing my (broadly defined) neighborhood bakeries while pondering how much staying in DC I can commit to and whether I should just move to New York (where the hamantaschen is surely more abundant), and try to sort out my employment destiny there.

Third: I planned to go to Tweaks' for dinner and Veronica Mars last night, and my nebulous cookie goal became much more specific.

So I set out on a looong tour of Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Hts., U Street, Adams Morgan and Dupont -no dice. Well, that's not entirely true - there were two dark jelly-filled hamantaschen at Tryst, but I'm just picky enough for that to be not quite what I wanted. After Firehook didn't have any, I walked up Connecticut to Open City (because they share a bakery with Tryst, and if Tryst has two of one flavor, maybe they have a better selection). No luck. Though there were some pretty tasty looking apple roll things. . . I limited myself to a coffee and headed for the last stop - So's Your Mom - the greatest deli in the world, which happens to be about a block from my old apartment. And, of course, had both poppy and apricot. Which I should have figured out an hour earlier, but no matter - Tweaks and I had them for dessert. And they were fantastic. Perfect texture - crispy, neither too greasy nor too doughy, a good amount of filling - I am completely satisfied. But still completely unsure about what to do about what city I want to live in.