An egg cream in a pint glass with a red and white striped straw - Bhofack2/Getty Images Unless you grew up in, or have spent time in New York, or the Northeastern coast, you are probably unfamiliar ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. An egg cream was my father’s kitchen claim to fame. He assembled them with great flourish — Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup, cold milk from a glass bottle, ...

The classic, frothy egg cream is nostalgia in a glass. I’m not a New Yorker by any means. I grew up in a Connecticut suburb an hour north of the city, but as an Ashkenazi Jewish person, I’ve always ...

What is an Egg Cream? Last week I did a post on malted milkshakes. The nostalgia invoked by the term led me on a quest for a malted experience- and it was rewarding. But in consideration of soda ...

Leafing through the Jewish Journal, the article almost leaped into my lap. It was all about the egg cream. But not yet. At about age nine, I had earned the privilege of walking the neighborhood alone.