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6 to 8
ServingsMedium
By Jayne Cohen
Published 2008
It’s not the potato latke–or even a latke at all–that is required eating on Hanukkah. It is food fried in oil.
Each year, however, brings a new slew of picture books on Tante-something-or-other’s latkes; and for many Jews, especially the children, it’s hard to sever the Hanukkah-latke connection.
But crisp, fried latkes do not a meal make, though many nights they consume all my family’s appetite and my kitchen time as well.
At such times, I dip fish fillets into the