Viennese Cheesecake

The French region of Bourgogne is known for three things. First, the wine, second, les charolais—the famous beef cows—and third, the mines. In the 1950s came a postwar wave of economic migration when Poles arrived to work in the mines. While today it isn’t unusual to come across a small epicerie polonaise among the rolling hills and stone houses of the region, the Polish influence is very subtle several generations in. My friend Peter Gierszewski, a natural wi