Italian Latkes

As some may know, my mother Had little interest in cooking before she married my father. Several of the recipes in this book come from a little fifty-six-year-old notebook in which my mother took notes of recipes her mother taught her to make. One of them literally made my jaw drop. It described something that has become a tradition in our home around Hanukkah. Every year, my wife, Lael, pulls out our friend Joan Nathans book and we make latkes. She makes t