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Recipe: Sonny's Special Potato Latkes

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December 04, 2009

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potato latkes Hannukah starts next week, which means it's time to get out your grater and cast-iron pans and start frying up some latkes. We think this is the recipe to beat, the one that took JBF vice president Mitchell Davis "to the top of the latke world," as he wrote in his 2002 book, The Mensch Chef. In 1995, Davis won the Foundation's latke cook-off with this version, which uses his mother's formula of one onion for every two potatoes.