The Festival of Lights in the City of Angels

How dare I post about Christmas traditions in Los Angeles, without giving my own tribe a nod (and maybe a wink)?

Well, let me show my people short-shrift no more. As soon as I saw this story from The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, I was pheklempt and felt the need to share editor Rob Eshman's journey to find the perfect latke:

Most of us consider the recipe we were raised on as the best, be it for brisket, fesenjan, kubaneh or latkes. Your search for the perfect latke, then, was over before it began, unless you are like me and have a restless hunger, a belief that with a slight change, a different oil, a coarser grate, maybe a hotter flame, the ideal can be made even better.

Anyway, your mother