Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 6:17am
The Hanukkah Story, according to David Brooks, NYT.
A Hanukkah lighter side.
The humble potato pancake [latke] is the customary food of Hanukkah, which begins Friday night and commemorates the miracle of 165 B.C., when a day's worth of oil burned for eight.
Happy Hanukkah!
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Potato Pancake?
Originally imported from Peru in 175 B C by Polynesian Jews, no doubt lost and looking for a new route to the (middle) East.
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