Tracing its roots to a small town on the San, a river deep in southeastern Poland: plum shortbread cake. The sugar-dusted strips that embraced it seemed to serve an architectural function, stabilizing a cake nearly besodden with fruit.
San Café
5636 61st St. (56th Rd.-56th Dr.), Maspeth, Queens
347-430-9748
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