Culinary Traditions of Hanukkah

Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, starts at sundown on December 11, celebrating the 2,000-year old miracle that turned one day’s worth of purified olive oil for the Temple’s menorah into eight days of fuel to keep the lights burning.  To commemorate this phenomenon, the learned elders instituted the festival of Hanukkah.  A single flame [...]