Apple Noodle Kugel

When I was a little girl, I used to be taken to an Éclairs bakery in New York every weekend by my German godfather to eat his favorite apple noodle kugel. I had no idea that the chain was once owned by the father of my future husband, Lenny. I just knew that the food there was the greatest.

My godfather David Weber had become my mentor when I was a young woman studying design in Manhattan. He had an incredible family history; his ancestors arrived in America on the Mayflower,