latke

Rakul Preet is looking resplendent in a pink saree and is spreading magic with her latke jhatkes.

Chef Judi (a television personality and Sarasota Magazine contributing editor) considers the latke the "guest of honor" for any Hanukkah celebration, and her own colorful, uptown version of the traditional latke pretties up the holiday table.

Indelibly associated with Chanukah--at least among Ashkenazi Jews, whose traditions have become arguably better known in the world through American popular culture--is the potato latke (some time ago I had access to a deli that kept me in potato latkes all year round, a prospect more or less impossible in Sofia, unless they are made at home).

--Food writer Matthew Goodman on the Hanukkah latke. Originally made with cheese, latkes are now made with an assortment of vegetables fried in oil, symbolizing the miraculous oil in a lamp that lasted eight days when Jews recaptured the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C.

-- Stop & Shop here made history -- as well as some delicious food -- at its first annual Long Island Chanukah Latke cook-off, held at a store in Woodbury, N.Y.

The Great Latke Hamantash Debate, edited by Ruth Fredman Cernea.

This week on Unorthodox, we're getting over our latke hangovers.

Well, as those things go, this one works in a latke maker's favor.

"Use just enough to hold the potato mixture together, but not enough to turn it yellow, or your latke will taste like a fried egg."

Make patties of the mixture using about two tablespoons per latke.

Jacksonville, FL, November 01, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Attention all Latke aficionados: Jacksonville's Annual Latke Frying Competition - The Great Latke Fry is scheduled for 6pm on the First Night of Chanukah, Wednesday Night Nov.

with a Community Chanukah Latke Dinner & Dance at the temple at 1175 E.