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Laura Silver has consumed knishes in four boroughs and three continents. Her reporting on food and culture has appeared in The New York Times, on National Public Radio and WNYC Radio. In 2006, she broke the story of the mysterious disappearance of an heirloom Brooklyn knish for the Brooklyn Papers.
Silver traces her roots to three boroughs of New York City and the town of Knyszyn, Poland. Her accounts of far-flung menorahs, knish hunts and cringe-worthy bar mitzvah parties have been featured in The Jerusalem Report, The Forward, and the anthology Jews of Brooklyn (Brandeis Press, 2002). Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the New York Times Company Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Lilly Foundation and the Banff New Media Institute.