300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook's Guide
Potatoes are just about every American’s favorite side dish, be they presented as an unadorned baked potato or in their most popular guise: the french fry. Sloan-McIntosh has scoured the world and dug up dozens of recipes that introduce the potato in every ethnic variation and in every part of a meal from breakfast through appetizer, main course, and even dessert. Americans used to take potatoes pretty much for granted, but recent interest in locavorism has introduced all manner and all colors of potatoes in sizes ranging from pebbles up through softball-sized examples.The author provides a detailed guide to the wealth of potato varieties and to their many uses. Recipes lean toward Sloan-McIntosh’s own Irish heritage, but she overlooks scarcely a tradition and includes many Indian recipes. Even potatoes’ South American roots are acknowledged with a Peruvian casserole of potatoes, cheeses, and chile pepper. --Mark Knoblauch