Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes

L.A. chefs are cooking up deluxe takes on the humble potato pancake
Joshua Lurie • Los Angeles Magazine • June 8, 2022
Creative chefs are adding glitz to humble potato pancakes, hash browns, and latkes, coming at the dish from different directions. Leading examples from four forward-thinking chefs build on time-tested methods and include personal, often...
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