Latkes and Loukamades

I came across loukamades in a wonderful book called The Food of the Jews of Greece (and yes, I do know this is the Christmas chapter) when I was writing a piece about food and Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, about which until that time I knew absolutely nothing. For the record, Hanukkah is an eight-day affair which tends to fall in December and has thus been appropriated as a kind of Yiddisher Christmas by Jewish-Americans who want their own