A new Hanukkah tradition: The post-potato latke

Perhaps no dish is more closely associated with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah than the potato latke, a flattened disc of grated potato and onion fried gently in oil until crisp and golden and served with sour cream or applesauce.
But not everyone realizes that it’s the frying in oil and not the potatoes that connects them symbolically to the eight-day festival, which this year begins on Sunday at nightfall.
It goes back to the Maccabees, a small band of Jewish rebels who took up arms