Bread and pastries at the Putka bakery in Warsaw, photo: Dawid Zuchowicz / AG Putka, another popular Warsaw chain, also has a long family history: the people working there today are fourth-generation ...

These people buy their raisin-filled babka at Jaslowiczanka, a hole-in-the-wall bakery bearing the last name of the Polish immigrant who founded it in 1989. The concoctions in the front case ...