It's Chanukah! I cooked a lovely dinner last night: Italian Chanukah fried chicken and yummy latkes. The chicken recipe is my riff on one that, if I remember correctly, came from Gabriele Corcos and Debi Mazar. It was traditional in Corcos' family for Chanukah. I can't find my copy of the recipe anymore, so I've been winging it for the past couple of years. Everyone raved about this year's version, so I have to try to remember how I made it so I can repeat it next year.
Since it's Chanukah, I went looking through my photos for some to post. The only ones I could find for my own family were these two, which had to have been from 1968, which is when my sister Laurie and her mother, Mary Lou, were living with us in La Puente, California.
According to TimeAndDate.com, the first night of Chanukah in 1968 was December 16 (coincidentally the same date as today!). So if I'm seeing the candles accurately in these photos, the first one was taken on the evening of December 20 (I see five candles) and the second one on the evening of December 22 (I see seven candles). Does anyone see a different number of candles? And that, of course, assumes that my mother did the correct number of candles on the appropriate days.
I can't figure out what the thing is next to the menorah in the first photo. Maybe some strange kind of tabletop Christmas tree? Or, as my mother commonly said, a Chanukah bush?
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| Myra (Meckler) Sellers, Laurie Sellers, Janice Sellers, approximately December 20, 1968, La Puente, California |
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| Laurie Sellers approximately December 22, 1968, La Puente, California |
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