FOOD
SECOND SERVING
Pastry perfection Davis Bakery’s Joel Davis shares insight – and a recipe – regarding rugelach, a Chanukah favorite
Story by Ed Carroll Photography by Michael C. Butz
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avis Bakery has been in Joel Davis’ family for 79 years, and for him, baking – especially pastries such as rugelach – is a family affair that brings back memories of holidays past. “My dad would wake us up – my sisters and I – at 2, 3 in the morning, drag us into Cedar Center (and) our plant in East Cleveland (at the time), and we’d just be on the bench rolling up rugelach,” he says. “And we were kids, we just wanted to be sleeping, not working. But those were our memories. My dad would drag our butts out of bed and take us to the bake shop.”
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Winter 2017
Davis is part of the second generation of Davis Bakery. He started helping when he was 8, and he’s now been with the company for 39 years. His two sons – Stuart and Jayson, the third generation – both work at the bakery, and there’s even a fourth generation working there: Davis’ great-nephew, Matt Martin, who works in the office. Davis Bakery, with locations in Warrensville Heights and Woodmere, offers rugelach in both raspberry and chocolate flavors, both with walnuts mixed into the filling. The chocolate rugelach also has mini-chocolate chips adorning
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