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t's all about fried food for Hanukkah. But it doesn't have to be latkes
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Posted on 12/02/2021 12:47:54 PM PST by mylife

Through the eight days of Hanukkah, it almost doesn't matter what you eat, as long as it's cooked in oil. A good case could be made for eating potato chips with every meal throughout the holiday.

The story goes that in 165 B.C., the Maccabees, a small band of pious Jews, led a revolt that defeated the powerful Hellenist imperial army. The Hellenist forces had mandated pagan rituals into Jewish life and desecrated the Jews' temple.

There was only enough consecrated olive oil left to keep the temple lamp burning for a single day, so a messenger was sent for more. When he returned to the temple eight days later, the lamp was still burning. And to celebrate this miracle, Jews cook with oil during Hanukkah, which begins Saturday.

For most American Jews, that means cooking up latkes — potato pancakes fried in oil. But other cultures toss different foods into pots of boiling oil. In Austria, Jews eat deep-fried breaded meat called schnitzel, and in Morocco, Hanukkah couscous features deep-fried, rather than boiled, chicken.

"Italian Jews are not latke people," writes Joyce Goldstein in Cucina Ebraica: Flavors of the Italian Jewish Kitchen. But deep-frying is an old Roman Jewish tradition, according to Goldstein, and cooks known as friggitori used to sell fried vegetables from street stands.

Today, restaurants in what was the Roman Jewish ghetto sell all kinds of deep-fried foods. One of the best known is carciofi alla Giudia, crispy-fried artichokes, Jewish style.

"The first time you eat one of these artichokes, it is so delicious, you will want to cry," Goldstein writes. She goes on to say, however, that the dish is difficult to make with American artichokes.

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No Latkes??!!
1 posted on 12/02/2021 12:47:54 PM PST by mylife
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I need some Tempura now (with RICE flour!)


2 posted on 12/02/2021 12:49:38 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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Potato chips are a lousy substitute for Latkes.


3 posted on 12/02/2021 12:50:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: mylife

My Mom didn’t make a lot of fried Jewish food (Her Mom’s side of the family is East European Jewish) but she made a mean Challah Bread.


4 posted on 12/02/2021 12:54:58 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: mylife

5 posted on 12/02/2021 12:55:20 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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Bigtime fail!! even sour cream and chive chips.


6 posted on 12/02/2021 12:56:47 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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Roll with it, it’s NPR...


7 posted on 12/02/2021 12:57:48 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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But no applesauce for me. I’ve never ‘gotten’ that. They’re wonderful with sour cream.


8 posted on 12/02/2021 12:57:48 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Oh yummmm! That looks so so good!


9 posted on 12/02/2021 1:00:01 PM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: mylife

My wife is from the Philippines, and a few years ago, my rabbi’s wife declared her lumpias (egg rolls) an approved food for Hanukkah.


10 posted on 12/02/2021 1:00:04 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Applesauce goes on pork, Ooops, or in apple kugen, sour cream too :)


11 posted on 12/02/2021 1:00:49 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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LOL!! love Lumpia!


12 posted on 12/02/2021 1:01:39 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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Now I’m hungry.

5.56mm


13 posted on 12/02/2021 1:05:40 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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Well, my work here is done...


14 posted on 12/02/2021 1:08:13 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

8^)

5.56mm


15 posted on 12/02/2021 1:10:43 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: mylife

In Israel they eat sufganiot(donuts).


16 posted on 12/02/2021 1:13:07 PM PST by philippa
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17 posted on 12/02/2021 1:14:21 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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I’m sure they do, they have beignets in NO... :)


18 posted on 12/02/2021 1:17:09 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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I am not a sufganoit guy...


19 posted on 12/02/2021 1:23:48 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

Love that show!


20 posted on 12/02/2021 1:27:12 PM PST by philippa
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