Going From Famine To Feast

By Jan Chait Thanksgivukkah is a once-in-a-lifetime holiday you probably haven't heard of, yet it occurs this very week. It's when Hanukkah and Thanksgiving converge to overlap or, as food writer Veronica Meewes put it, "the fried foods of Hanukkah meet the carbfest of Thanksgiving." Some say the next time the two converge is 70,000 or so years away. Others say it's in 2070. Either way, it's rare. (Also rare this year is the turkey-shaped menorah: the Menurkey.) Traditional foods for Thanksgiving include turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, rolls, green bean casserole (I'm told), and whatever else you can come up with to cause the table to groan under the weight of all that abundance. For Hanukkah, it's sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) and potato latkes (pancakes). Brisket is always a good choice for a meat. The oddity of the occurrence has caused cooks of all abilities to come up with food fusions that cover both holidays, such as brisket with cranberry sauce and pumpkin sufganiyot with a cranberry jam filling. For my bow to both traditions, I plan to make rolls from pumpkin challah dough and to fry up some sweet potato latkes. People can eat cranberry sauce with that if they want. We have the turkey, my daughter is bringing mashed potatoes, and my granddaughter is making deviled eggs. I'm also making cranberry sauce and pumpkin cake. Forget pumpkin pie: My daughter was born on November 26 and we celebrate on Thanksgiving. Pumpkin cake has always been her birthday cake. As far ...
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