Potatoes were cheap, plentiful and easy to store, making them a staple and necessitating inventive potato recipes. Still, it was the European Jews who gave potato pancakes their now-famous Yiddish ...

From Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman of Wise Sons in San Francisco. Peel the potatoes and grate using the large holes on a box grater. Put the grated potato in a clean dish towel, wrap tightly and ...

These latkes are thin, crisp, and pan-fried, not deep-fried. My family’s traditional recipe is inspired by Sara Kasdan’s, from her hilarious 1956 cookbook Love and Knishes, which my mother received as ...

Our collection of Hanukkah recipes will give you plenty of options for eight delicious days of the Festival of Lights. Load ...

Latkes are one of those traditional Hanukkah foods that you see on the table year after year—and for good reason. These potato pancakes are versatile. They can just as easily be served up along a ...

Every year at Hanukkah I think of my grandmother and the stories she told about making beef brisket and potato latkes for her first Hanukkah dinner in America. But as much as I love the stories, our ...

How to bring restaurant-level comfort food home, according to a chef - Crisp schnitzel, silky bisque gnocchi and golden ...

“What makes a potato pancake a latke?” my younger daughter asked me last week, just before the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which begins this year on Sunday evening (all Jewish holidays ...

Things are always a little crazy in my house. As a working mom with five kids, life is never dull. Sometimes I feel as if it will take a miracle just to get everything done. With Hanukkah approaching, ...

As soon as I start frying up these classic Hanukkah potato pancakes called latkes, I’m transported back to my mother's kitchen. And when I take that first bite, I'm in heaven. For Hanukkah, the ...