"hannukah" news and stories

While the holiday season is all about tradition, here's one to break: serving wine with dinner. Craft beer's varied styles and flavors mean you can match any Hannukah meal with beer.

Kick-start your Festival of Lights feast with crispy potato latkes crowned with applesauce. They're tastiest aside Unibroue Éphémère, a cloudy, well-spiced blanche brewed with apples, which provides a tartness that matches well with applesauce.

Alternately, try a Belgian like Chimay Tripel. The 8 percent ABV cuts through the grease, while the Tripel's bready nature goes well with potatoes.

Hey everybody, it's Hanukkah! It's Chanukah! No matter how you spell it, it's time for the Jewish festival of lights -- eight crazy nights of dreidels gone wild, a time when latkes are as abundant as old yentas around a mah-jongg table.

But you don't need to be Jewish to partake in Hanukkah traditions, particularly the gastronomic treat of latkes (or lattkes). No matter how you spell it, latke is Yiddish for fried pancakes, typically of the potato variety.

These oily treats are oddly similar to McDonald's hash browns. But, Bubbe Wendy has guilted us into using her Fancy Fast Food recipe ("If you just want to use McDonald's hash browns, then I guess that's fine by me..."), so here goes. Oy. ...

Words to eat by's writer, Debbie, is often a diet-minded food blogger, which makes her site a great reference for a delicious but not-as-bad-for-you cake or cookies. She knows, however, that certain things only happen once a year and they should not be skimped on. Her latke recipe is one of her once-a-year recipes and though its simplicity may belie the delicious taste of the results, Debbie's photo certainly does not. One look at it and I can taste the hot, oil crisped potato pancakes yielding to a moist, tender center in latke perfection.
Happy Hannukah, everyone!

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