Why American Jews Love Stella D'Oro Cookies

[elleng]

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/why-american-jews-love-stella-doro-cookies/?

[Ocelot II]

1. I've never heard of them but they look tasty. To me, Stella d'Oro

is a variety of daylily.

[Jirel]

2. Because they're GOOD.

What’s so hard to understand about that? The article is wrong about one thing - it’s not just a favorite of Jews and Italians, but if pretty much any European immigrant, especially the generation that arrived just post-WWII.

In our Ukrainian household, they were omnipresent, eaten with harsh black tea for breakfast, or nibbled as an easy dessert any time. I will never forget that taste from my childhood, almondy and mildly sweet and super crunchy.

[Easterncedar]

3. I make an Italian dessert with Stella doro cookies

My spelling may be wrong, but my “dolce torinese” is the bomb. The secret is rum. And almonds and chocolate

[JudyM]

4. My parents went through many years of enjoying the original (no chocolate fun) after dinner...

I could not understand the appeal when they suddenly started appearing on the table, nor did I ever learn to like them.
(Dad’s folks were Ukrainian, Mom’s were Polish/German, FWIW.)