Posted on 12/02/2018 10:31:59 AM PST by SJackson
Too bad. I’ve got some with onions frying right now. Yum yum!!
Latkes are AWESOME——the NYT had definitely gone to the dark side.
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How many participants paid taxes in one way, shape, or form? Maybe that killed them.
Ira Stoll
An editor at The New York Times is leaping to the defense of the latke after publishing a pre-Hanukkah article warning about the potentially fatal health risks of eating fried potatoes.
On Friday (Fry-Day?) the Algemeiner reported on the strange timing of the Times, observing that the article, which did not mention the upcoming holiday or its fried potato pancake traditions, might be interpreted as “a subtle yet nonetheless unmistakable effort to throw shade at a beloved Jewish delicacy.”
After the article was filed, we heard back from The New York Times with a response to our emailed inquiry about whether the timing was intentional. A New York Times editor, Patrick LaForge, assured the Algemeiner, “The timing here is a coincidence.”
(Or, as former deputy mayor of New York City Howard Wolfson put it on Facebook, “sometimes a potato is just a potato.”)
LaForge explained the article’s origins as follows: “We were brainstorming health story ideas, and everyone on our general assignment team agreed we loved fries too much but we just weren’t sure: how bad are they for us, really? Is there a safe amount? Are some types healthier than others?”
The reporter who tackled the story, Christopher Mele, “took up the challenge, but he has other duties so it took the story several weeks to land and we found ourselves faced with Thanksgiving. So we held it for a week that fell between holidays where people tend to feast,” LaForge explained.
“Now, I live in a mixed faith household and love my wife’s latkes, so I think of them as a separate category from fast-food fries. They certainly taste better. If I had to guess, based on our expert’s advice, they are somewhat healthier than deep-fried fries if cooked in a skillet,” LaForge wrote. He added that for the upcoming holiday, “I will be eating latkes, more than one helping, and to hell with the experts. Happy Hanukkah.”
Now there is one judgment on which the Algemeiner’s characteristically critical press critic can wholeheartedly and publicly agree with a New York Times editor. Such accord is unusual. If it doesn’t quite rise to the level of another Hanukkah miracle, even so, it’s something to celebrate.
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I think there is high correlation of reading the NYTimes and going insane.
Coming soon to a courthouse near you... class-action suits against McDonald’s as the nation’s top purveyor of the deadly side-order.
Wow! Who knew? Thank you so much our good friends at the Slimes! How would we EVER get through a day without you? Who says you are a dirty rotten bunch of lying bastards?
I think almost all of the standard wisdom about food is incorrect.
For one thing — vegetable oil? They say it’s good. It isn’t.
Lard? They say it’s bad. It isn’t.
High fat, high protein, low carb. A lot of people have figured out that this is a sold approach to nutrition. But if you ask your doctor, they are likely to disagree. Because they have been told, for decades, to push a false narrative.
You greedy son of a gun!!
What’s your address???
Better yet i’ll give you mine and you can mail them in a doggy bag :)
If you do not eat latkes you will die.
Whatever you eat you will die.
Eat whatever you will, while reading the Sefer ha‑Nefesh.
And have a Happy Hanukkah.
Of course, the major difference being that 98%+ of the country celebrates Thanksgiving. At most 2% of the country is in on Hanukkah.
Because it actually is just like the Times to be a dreary killjoy, fretting over any health risk imaginable—especially when the risk is identified through some poorly designed and interpreted research study.
Don’t forget the sour cream and applesauce. :-)
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And I’ll be frying mine in chicken fat a little later. My mouth is watering already.
We had a friend who used to live here who invited her friends and neighbors every year to a Hanukkah party, and among other things always served latkes.
They are delicious. And so are French fries, although I seldom get a chance to eat them.
That’s all right. If the PC nutballs at the NY Slimes don’t want to eat latkes, it’s their loss, not mine.
Even more ironic, I get the NY Times cooking column, and right now they are featuring Hanukkah recipes, with latkes in the most prominent picture. Looks delish, of course!
Sometimes, you just have to say “Oh, hush!”, and disregard data from the chronically worried.
Coming Next: “The DANGERS of getting out of your bed each morning; What they don’t want you to know!!”
What’s the author talking about..
The Sulzberger family still controls the company. Carlos Slim owns a small chunk of class A non voting stock
The Sulzberger family and some directors own all the class B voting shares
The paper lost its moral conscience when Abe Rosenthal was forced out
“He kept the paper straight”
His epitaph and could not have been more accurate in every way
From my cold dead hands!
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