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Ramona Grigg's avatar

This is wonderful, Lev. I couldn't believe you were writing about potato pancakes right now, when only yesterday I was looking up recipes for...potato pancakes! Maybe because I saw that it was Latke season and I remembered how much I loved those lovely things, but I suddenly had a hankering for some. I toyed with the idea of buying a bag of frozen hashbrowns but I have a bag of Russets in the cupboard so I really should just grate them up and try my hand at it.

I've made them before, years ago, and they tasted fine to us but then we don't really know what they're supposed to taste like!

As to your last question--about whether they were really that good or if it was the setting, the feeling that you were being loved and cared for--it had to have been both.

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Alice Goldbloom's avatar

Lovely evocative piece. I am going to venture and say your dad's potato pancakes were excellent. Hold on to that memory.

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