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Wishing all my fellow Jews a very happy Chanukah! Pass the latkes!

Every year at Christmas my mother-in-law sends us a big box of cookies. I think she makes the best chocolate chip cookies I've had, but this year I tried the Raisin Jumbos, which were really excellent. She makes most of her cookies with butter, but uses Crisco for this one; and she doesn't add nuts, which I think would be 'gilding the lily': JUMBO RAISIN COOKIES Preheat oven to 375 degrees.   1 c. water 1 c. shortening 3 eggs, beaten 1 c. nuts (optional) 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. allspice 2 c. raisins 2 c....

862,106 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUzo3uQ00OM FUNNY!!! Making potato latkes and Celebrating Chanukah in da Hood

If you walk into the Second Avenue Deli - a kosher eatery that relocated from the East Village, when it actually was on 2nd Avenue, to Midtown - with $24.95 in your wallet, you'll have just enough moolah to buy a little snack called the 'Instant Heart Attack.' The 804-calorie towering sandwich, made up of sliced pastrami and fried potato latkes, is like the Tim Tebow at Carnegie Deli - a symbol of food excess that tastes delicious all the way to the doctor. Except the one at Second Avenue faced a bit of a legal problem. Enter The Heart...

(IsraelNN.com) Two world-renowned Harvard professors – Alan M. Dershowitz and Steven Pinker – faced off last week in a debate over whether latkes or hamentaschen rules in Jewish cuisine. Dershowitz, the Frankfurter Law Professor who has defended the likes of famous murder suspects O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow, argued on behalf of the classic Purim hamentaschen. Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, stood up for the Ashkenazi Chanukah favorite, the potato latke. In the blessing recited after a meal in which bread has been consumed, there is a special prayer that is said commemorating the miracles of both...

Last night, in the noisy 10-250 lecture hall, six respected professors gathered to continue a three-year debate of the merits and pitfalls of two Jewish delicacies: the latke, a fried potato pancake oft served with applesauce or sour cream during Hannukah, and the hamantasch, a three-sided, fruit-filled cookie traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday of Purim. Defending the latke were Robert J. Silbey, dean of the School of Science, Music professor Brian Robison, and Literature professor Diana Henderson. Sitting opposite of them and defending the hamantasch were Mathematics professor Daniel J. Kleitman, Physics professor Alan Guth ’68, and Mechanical Engineering...