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More Hanukkah Foods: How Not to Smell up Your Apartment With Frying Latkes; Hanukkah Donuts Recipe

During Hanukkah, the odor of frying latkes is perfume to some but a smelly curse to others. For tips on ridding your apartment of that oil-and-onion aroma, read Brick Underground’s Out Damn Latke.
Some people fry jelly donuts, not latkes at Hanukkah.  Why all the frying? Fried foods are supposed to remind you of the miracle [...]