I recently visited Port Richmond High School, and I learned that I have been eating a certain food the wrong way my entire life. I walked into the school’s culinary kitchen and I sat down to eat the food my mentee and his classmates have prepared for my Wagner classmates and I to enjoy. One of the students brought a tray of snacks that looked delicious just from the aroma that it provided. When I asked my mentee (Erik) what they were, he said that they were just a simple knish. I was completely shocked by this; I never had eaten a knish like these before. These knishes were little potato balls made with starch and flour; they also were pointy at the top. My entire life I have been eating knishes that were flat squares and these knishes that I have been eating my whole did not even closely resemble the ones that were provided to my classmates and I that day. I had to even ask the students if these were what actual knishes looked like; sure enough, they had told me that these were traditional knishes. I was so upset that I had been eating knishes wrong my whole life! I was now so intrigued by these knishes that I just had to try them. Sure enough, these knishes were so soft and delicious. It was simple food made with flour, starch, and potatoes, but it was one of the best foods that I have eaten that whole week. What made this food even better was that I was able to eat the knishes with ketchup. I made sure when I got home that day to call out my mom and tell her that she had been giving me “fake” knishes to eat my entire life.

These are the type of flat knishes that I have been eating my entire life.