food processors<\/em> for onion chopping. But I need to be bent over the knife, the fumes from the onions wafting up, the tears streaming down.<\/p>\nWhen you make latkes, you gotta cry a little. You just gotta.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I feel the same way when it comes to making latkes. I’m not talking about blood, per se, though I do<\/em> tend to bleed when I cook (frigging grater). I’m talking about onions. There are people — just recently my mother became one of them — who use food processors<\/em> for onion chopping. But I need to be bent over the knife, the fumes from the onions wafting up, the tears streaming down.<\/p>\n