And now for something completely different! (Latkes)

This past saturday I decided to enter/attend Latkapaoloza, a Chanukah celebration at Caplansky's delicatessen.   I had met Zane Caplansky the previous weekend at a dinner party at chateau DivaQ where he had offered an invitation to Latkepaloza. Zane makes some of the best smoked meat I've ever had, and any excuse to visit Caplansky's is good with me. I highly suggest you check out Caplansky's.  I've only made Latkes a few times before, clearly I was going to need help, which I managed to find - I bought in a "stunt jew" (my friend Jenny) to help with my latkes.. We had an idea to turn latkes on their head.. so we found some fun ingredients, duck fat, bacon, purple potatoes, creme fraise, smoked salmon green onion and caviar. We had such an great evening drinking, enjoying each other's company and frying up our latkes we almost didnt make it to the contest! I clearly should have been paying attention to the rules to latkepaloza, We did manage to get honorable mention for our latkes, but we arrived too late, with to few latkes to be considered for grand champion of the latkes. We did manage to make it into the local media, here and I get the impression we may have had a good chance at winning if we had just arrive a bit earlier and with more latkes..