And when we grate each potato down to that final tiny morsel, we have to slow down and carefully press that last bit of potato through the shredder or risk a bloodbath. My "little" brother, Mitch, a freshman, is about 6-4. And that's harder than it sounds, because we've got gargantuan hands. We get the box grater out and we shred all those potatoes by hand, trying our best not to cut our fingertips off in the process. But we are operating on old-school methods. No doubt plenty of cooks toss their latke spuds in a blender. Then we get the other ingredients ready: the bag of onions, salt, eggs, and olive oil. First we do the grunt work: peeling fifteen pounds of potatoes and soaking 'em in big pots of water so they don't brown. And for us, two rather large high school kids who love to cook and eat, making them is a major operation. Latkes are potato pancakes, a traditional dish for the holiday. It also means Mitch and I are in the kitchen, doing what we've always done every year at this time since we were old enough to help: making our grandmother's recipe for potato latkes. Every year we go to the Weinsteins' house for a Passover seder and every year they come here to celebrate Hanukah, the Jewish holiday known as the Festival of Lights. For one, our uncle Fred and his family will be there and so will our friends the Weinsteins. the place my brother Mitch and I have called home our entire lives - that means a few things. It's Friday evening, December 19, 2003, the first night of Hanukah. In Eat My Schwartz, Geoff and Mitch talk about the things that have made them the extraordinary people that they are: Their close-knit and supportive family, their Jewish faith and traditions, their love of the game and drive for excellence and, last but not least, the food they love to eat, whether at home or on the road. Despite all that, they wound up at top-tier college programs and became the first Jewish brothers in the league since 1923. They started their football careers late, not playing a down of organized football until they joined their low-key high school program. Geoff and Mitchell Schwartz are the NFL's most improbable pair of offensive linemen.
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