Dec 10, 2008 — Holidays may not start in the kitchen but all the good ones end up there, as families and friends come together to celebrate around food. At Potsdam's Beth El Synagogue the public is invited in, too -- just before Chanukah -- for the annual food festival. This year's festival is Sunday, Dec. 14. Before you get in the door you'll smell the latkes or potato pancakes frying in oil, and the matzo ball soup. Another staple of the event is the blintz... Martha Foley has today's Heard Up North. (Thanks to Lamar Bliss for recording and producing this piece.)