Can You Say Hamantaschen? - NYTimes.com Purim may be over, but it's never a bad time to make hamantaschen, the triangular pastries that are traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday. The Jewish cooking expert Joan Nathan demonstrates how to make them from scratch, filling and all, for Tablet Magazine. As she bakes, she dispenses her wry cooking commentary: "It's mostly butter. How can that be bad?" says Ms. Nathan, who has also written about her cooking for The New York Times, as you can see here and here. "Good ingredients and good timing," she says as she tucks her hamantaschen in the oven. And the rest is luck. @pete_wells alerted us to this, by way of @thejgold at The Los Angeles Times.