Above: 2025 entries in Buffalo’s Best Kielbasa Contest
Kielbasa is Polish for sausage, and some families still make their own for big holidays like Christmas and Easter, grinding pork, adding the right amount of salt and spices, and continuing the debate about whether marjoram is necessary or will ruin everything.
On March 28 at noon, Buffalo kielbasa home cooks will gather for Buffalo’s Best Kielbasa Contest, in Potts Banquet Hall in the Clinton-Rossler Plaza in Cheektowaga. Each year a panel of judges taste entries of homemade fresh traditional, fresh holiday, smoked traditional, smoked holiday and non-traditional kielbasa…