Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is nearly upon us. The festival represents one last hurrah before the solemn Christian season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends with Holy Week and Easter. In many traditions, Lent is a period of fasting, and thus the days leading up to it are filled with conspicuous consumption—a sort of eat, drink, and be merry moment.
One celebratory sweet that puts the fat in Fat Tuesday comes to us from Poland: paczki.
