1.   Although Americans use the word latke, a term that comes from the Ukrainian and Yiddish, Jews have no monopoly on potato pancakes.

2.   An appetizer of tiny crab cakes with a potato pancake would have been fine if served properly hot.

3.   And on top of that, Southern Mississippi will make potato pancakes out of Idaho in a yawner.

4.   Bake-fried latkes are lighter and cleaner-tasting than than the oily potato pancakes.

5.   After we tasted the local charcuterie and a daube de boeuf, a crisp, paper-thin potato pancake the size of the entire plate was placed on the table.

6.   Brunching on gourmet potato pancakes and egg-free French toast in a West Hollywood bistro seems like the kind of thing to do with a television superstar.

7.   Gifts are exchanged, potato pancakes called latkes are fried and children spin the dreidel, a four sided top.

8.   I was tired of frying potato pancakes for Hanukkah and then being grilled by the Food Police.

9.   In this country, latkes, or potato pancakes -- not geese -- are generally thought of as Hanukkah fare.

10.   My entree of roasted brill with red wine sauce was beautifully seared and accompanied by a crisp potato pancake.