50 Best Mashed Potatoes (365 Ways Series)
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Consider the homely potato. A simple tuber--most often servedbaked, fried, or mashed--it inspires little passion, belonging insteadto that same culinary family of comfort foods as macaroni and cheese oroatmeal. But with Sarah Reynold's 50 Best Mashed Potatoes, thishumble root's fortunes may be changing. Replace the standardbutter/milk/salt with chipotle chiles and cilantro butter, for example, or mash your potatoes with a wild mushroom ragout.... you'llhardly recognize this as the same vegetable your mother used to servewith Sunday dinner. From Smashed Red Potatoes with Extra-Virgin Olive Oilto traditional recipes that are still better than the ones yourmother used to make, 50 Best Mashed Potatoes offers up a mashedpotato for every occasion. Let your tubers take a walk on the wildside. ... Read more

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50 Best Mashed Potatoes (365 Ways Series)
Being a mashed potato lover 50 Best Mashed Potatoes (365 Ways Series) was a great help. I found new and exciting ways to create a favorite side dish. My family loves all the new creations. And the great tips from how to cook mash potatoes to the mechanics of mashing were helpful. A simple little book to help spruce up mealtime. ... Read more

Isbn: 076790043X
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Potatoes    5. Regional & Ethnic - American - General    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Cooking / American / General   

The potato is the world's number one vegetable, so many cookbooks have been devoted to it over the years. The Potato Cookbook by Janet Reeves includes a 400-year history, nutritional information, and 35 tips for cooking spuds. The 300-plus recipes cover every imaginable use of potatoes. Likely favorites are the crisply roasted, thick potato peels called "Picks," which are low fat and healthful; Currant-Potato Scones; all 20 recipes for potato salads; easy Black Forest Cake; Meat and Potato Meatloaf; and Quick Fish Cakes. You'll also learn about the International Potato Centre in Peru and the Potato Museum in Washington, D.C. ... Read more

Isbn: 1565542460
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Potatoes    5. Specific Ingredients - Natural Foods    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables   

The Great Potato Book
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cool potatoes
i never knew there were that much potatos! ... Read more

Isbn: 1580081851
Sales Rank: 521554
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Potatoes    5. Reference    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables   

One Potato, Two Potato
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One Potato Two Potato excels in the breadth and richness of itsrecipes, as well as its fine and immensely readable attention to its subject.Precise yet relaxed, it offers over 300 potato dishes--simple to elegant,everyday to special occasion. You'll find appetizers like Potato PorciniFrittata; main dishes and sides, such as Young Chicken Stuffed with Potatoes andShiitakes, and Potato, Leek, and Bacon Pan Fry; even breads and desserts, likePotato-Cheddar Bread with Chives and the irresistible Farmhouse Chocolate Cake(potatoes in the batter help ensure moistness).

The book also "discovers" sweet potatoes, offering recipes for thisoft-neglected treat that not only include stellar versions of standbys likeBaked Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows, but also Orange Semifreddo and aluscious chocolate sauce. Readers will also find formulas for such internationalspecialties as Samosas Filled with Potatoes and Peas; Columbian Potato andChicken Stew; and Surbiic, delicate French potato croquettes. With a detailed,up-to-date investigation of available potato types (sensibly approached in termsof starch content) and with color photos throughout, One Potato TwoPotato is a definitive exploration of one of nature's most humble yet mostdelicious foods. --Arthur Boehm ... Read more

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Colcannon, Pierogies, Vichysoisse, and Samosas oh my
If this is the kind of book an editor of other food writers can give us, then I wish more of these largely invisible literary yeomen would take up the pen to do their own material more often. This is an excellent example of my favorite kind of book. It deals exclusively with recipes based on a single main ingredient. This makes it the book to go to when you have that last pound of spuds in a ten pound bag or you need some starch recipe to round out a meal and you can't face another rice dish, or you just want to do something a little different for mashed potatoes. Therefore, I am always inclined to give a good rating to this kind of book as long as the authors don't drop the ball between the kitchen and the word processor. These authors, Roy Finamore and Molly Stevens, have kept a firm grasp on the ball throughout the game.

It is not entirely true that the book deals exclusively with recipes containing potatoes, as it also contains recipes for sauces, dips, and fillings for potatoes. One way or another, every recipe supports a course with a potato dish.

The book is divided up into chapters which suit it's star player and the list of chapter titles shows just how versatile our little spud can be. The chapters are:

Appetizers and First Courses with roasted and dressed potato skins with appropriate fillings, dips, spreads, and sauces. It also includes the famous Spanish tapas called tortillas plus potato stuffed pastries such as knishes, samosas, and pierogies.

Soups with all the usual potato and leek soups and recipes for various stocks. It also contains several chowders and potato soups with other root vegetables.

Salads include just about every kind of potato salad you can dream of. As one of my favorite types of spud dishes, salads are one of the things potatoes do well which simply can't be matched by it's starchy competitor, rice.

Main Dishes includes potatoes joined up with some form of protein. Some dishes are famous such as corned beef hash and shepherd's pie and gnocchi. Some dishes are obscure, but no less interesting.

Mashed Potatoes contains 29 recipes for mashed white and sweet potatoes, but other chapters include additional recipes for mashed potatoes such as Colcannon, which is listed under baked and roasted recipes.

Fried Potatoes gives another host of recipes, which cannot be matched by rice. All the favorites such as French Fries, Home Fries, Hash Browns, Potato Pancakes, and potato chips are here.

Baked and Roasted Potatoes contains all the usual classics for both white and sweet potatoes, including oven fries, pommes Anna, candied sweet potatoes, and roasted potatoes with other root vegetables.

Gratins and Scalloped Potatoes is another of my favorite spud styles. This is one of the few corners of the book where I find a recipe missing. There is nothing similar to the Sicilian potato gratin made with chicken stock and olive oil rather than with cream.

Boiled Potatoes includes a lot of sauces to `kick up' the bland boiled spuds and includes German Potato Dumplings.

Breads and Rolls includes the famous use of potato in foccacia plus all sorts of breads where the gluten free potato starch makes the breads more tender.

Desserts is a rather short chapter wherein potatoes are primarily used as a starch addition to pastry doughs.

As suggested by some of the contents above, the book covers both white and sweet `potatoes' even though the two plants are not closely related biologically. They are closely related in their culinary applications, since you can do to a sweet potato almost everything you can do to a russet.

It should be no surprise that the book deals with the three main types of potatoes in great detail and is very careful to specify which type of potato is best with each dish.

The chatter in the headnotes and introductory sections to each chapter are engagingly written. They are informative without being cluttered with gushing emotions about beautiful vegetables. These are spuds after all. One of my favorite sidebar sections discusses the `Art and Craft of Tourner', a nearly forgotten technique which rounds the `sharp' edges and corners of sliced potatoes to create shapes which will cook more evenly. Burning the edges of potatoes just once when you roast sliced potatoes is enough to convince you that this synonym for tedium may just have a point.

The photographs are few, but of very good quality. As I would expect from a house like Houghton Mifflen, the simple, straightforward layout and fonts are very easy on the eyes.

This is not a classic and will probably go out of print in five years, which is all the more reason to get your copy now. A worthy addition to the library of anyone who cooks often and needs good sources of variety in inexpensive ingredients. Good recipes which are cheap. That's a winner.

Don't Bother
Way too blah...don't bother - better tater books out there.

Okay but could be allot better
There were allot of typical potato recipes in here; pancakes, mashed etc. but many ethnic ones were not.I think you could do allot better just getting Fannie Farmet and reading her potato section than wasting your money on this.

Few pictures round this out and the pages are potatoey coloured.
Rather uninspired book. ... Read more

Isbn: 0618007148
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - General    5. Potatoes    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Cooking / Vegetables   

Passion for Potatoes
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A wonderful resource
Lydie's cookbooks are ALWAYS perfectly done -- every recipe is a gem.I've been to her cooking school in NYC, and can attest to this woman's incredible knowledge, skill, and ability to teach.Fabulous.Check outher other cookbooks, too... ... Read more

Isbn: 0060969105
Sales Rank: 699283
Subjects:  1. Cookery    2. Cookery (Potatoes)    3. Cooking    4. Cooking / Wine    5. Potatoes    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Cooking / Vegetables   

Potato Salad: Fifty Great Recipes
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Potato salad is almost always synonymous with casual outdoor picnics and summertime comfort food. Well, hold onto your spuds, because Barbara Lauterbach's Potato Salad: Fifty Favorite Recipes will change the way you view this standard accompaniment. Potato Salad features many variations of family recipes, from the New Year's Day Good Luck Salad, with traditionally Southern black-eyed peas, to the Rosemary Orange Potato salad, with an elegant citrus twist and enough class to serve at any formal luncheon. The book is divided into five sections, and one of the most unusual and fun chapters is dedicated to international potato salads. Here you'll find salads featuring various seafood, imported meats, and cheeses, such as the Stop and Go Italian Potato Salad and the Niçoise Potato Salad. Accompanying many of the recipes are colorful photos of the finished product to provide additional inspiration and presentation ideas. Potato Salad will satisfy your starchy comfort-food cravings while providing unique hot and cold salads that serve as main courses or side dishes any time of year. --Teresa Simanton ... Read more

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Fantastic Potato Salad!
Even if you are an "occasional" cook, this book is fantastic!Most potato salads could be a meal.The information in the chapter called "The Basics" is invaluable for creating superb potato salad.After trying eight recipes, Barbara Lauterbach's "Potato Salad" will be a mainstay in my kitchen.

Potato Salad
The title "Potato Salad" on the cover of this cook book intrigued me.I couldn't think of many variations of such an old fashioned dish.To me just omitting eggs or mustard , selecting salad dressing in preference to mayonnaise is about the extent of my repertoire .

I bought the book because potato salad is just about my favorite food.The variety of potato salad recipes is very surprising.Being a lover of fish I was amazed at the many kinds of fish that blend deliciously with potatoes in a salad.

Barbara has not only found tasty potato salad recipes from all over the world, she has made them simple to follow and noted substitutes where you mayneed them.

This is a great cook book made simple and will certainly be on my gift list.

Potato Bliss!!!
Having purchased this book hot off the press and cooking two of the recipes for Mother's Day, I have to say, this is a keepa! Brilliant idea to create a compilation of recipes focusing on one food. There's a spud recipe here for every kind of meal you could possibly imagine, from the very simple to the extraordinarily elegant. A must for every kitchen! ... Read more

Isbn: 0811833372
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - Salads    5. Salads    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables   

Potato
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Can't get any better than this!
This book is *the* book to get if you're a potato fan. It has great recipes with gorgeous pictures, just looking through the book will make you want to cook and eat it right there. Many great classic recipes, although sometimes they are not the original, authentic ones, but that doesn't stop me from raving about this book. There are also very informative chapters at the beginning of the book about the history, different kinds (you would never guess how many there are) and preparation methods of potatoes. I love this book, you will, too!

A Beautiful and Delicious Cookbook!
I am a potato lover and found this book to be informative and useful in the variety and preparation of potato cookery.The pictures are gorgeous and helpful.Also, the recipes are simple, easy and delicious.I'm quite happy with this book!!!

The Most Pleasing Potato
This is a generous and lovely book about the wonders of the potato.A goodly chunk of the text is devoted to different varieties of potatoes and potato preparation technique, so you can spend lots of time reading andlooking at pictures.Don't forget the recipies, however.I've tried atleast a dozen of them and havn't been dissapointed yet. ... Read more

Isbn: 0754801721
Sales Rank: 530197
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Beyond Burlap: Idaho's Famous Potato Recipes
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Potato Heads
Outstanding book that would be even better with pictures.

This book is the BEST!!
My brother sent me a copy of Beyond Burlap for my birthday.I fell in love with this cookbook.Now, I send it to all my friends who have ever asked what canI make with potatoes.It is very complete and appeals to all tastes and ages.A perfect gift for anyone!

Best potato cookbook I have ever read!
Beyond Burlap has an excellent assortment of potato recipes!I never knew there were so many ways to prepare a potato!The Potato Mocha Poundcake is my favorite.The stories and fun potato tidbits make Beyond Burlap a fun cookbook to own!

All potato lovers should own this book! ... Read more

Isbn: 0913743976
Sales Rank: 1031237
Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Potatoes    5. Reference    6. Regional & Ethnic - American - Northwestern States    7. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables   

Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection: Potatoes (Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection , Vol 5)
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37 recipes for techniques & presentation of the common spud
(...).I got my money's worth on the fancy presentation for Maxim's potatoes, which lists only potatoes and clarified butter as ingredients.If you have a mandoline, the recipe is a snap!

This book series offers simple recipes that teach one or two culinary techniques per recipe.Every recipe is shown in a photo.It's a thin hardback book, only 1/2-inch thick.If you're in a potato rut, maybe this book will free you.I gave it only 2 stars because there are so few recipes. ... Read more

Isbn: 9625934286
Sales Rank: 615441
Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Cooking / Wine    3. General    4. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables   

How to Cook Potatoes
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Potato cookery is deceptively exacting. Recognizing this, How to Cook Potatoes provides succinctly valuable council. In fewer than 100 pages it offers illustrated, step-by-step instructions for preparing potatoes in the most commonly enjoyed ways--recipes, tips, and information that all cooks can use.

Beginning with an enumeration of potato types and the preparation methods appropriate to each, the book then explores potato-cooking methods--baking, roasting, mashing and frying, among them--with recipes for basic variations like Mashed Potatoes with Pesto. Included also are chapters on potato salad, hash browns, latkes, and potato gratin, all of which offer definitive techniques for producing best results. Throughout, underlying techniques are explored and illustrated (french fry slicing is one), and sensible tips abound (for example, boil unskinned potatoes for fluffy mashed potatoes).

A true primer, the book is part of the Cook's Illustrated Library series. Like the magazine, the books are dedicated to presenting tried-and-perfected recipes and cooking techniques in a concise, approachable way. --Arthur Boehm ... Read more

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Book Too Tiny
I normally am an advocate of any book or magazine published by Cook'sIllustrated magazine.Unfortunately, this series of books are too smalland the print too tiny to be practical.You have to hold it very close toyour eyes to read it which makes it totally impractical for putting in yourcookbook holder to refer to while cooking.Since the pages are so small,the recipes span several pages which isn't great for the cookbook holdereither! I find it ironic that the subtitle says " An illustratedstep-by-step guide to perfect potatoes every time.". There are only 8illustrations in this particular book.

A tiny book with a ton of information!
If you have ever tried to make a potato salad or french fries you will find that the process may sound simple, yet without a few tried and true methods you may end up with less than desirable results.This is the beauty of Christopher Kimball's books.He not only tells you whichpotatoes work best in each recipe, he explains the proper method forcooking and storing them.You will find a great secret on page 50 whenmaking potato salad.You will also enjoy the descriptive writing thesetiny treasures are so famous for. The only thing I would add to this bookis the idea of serving the baked sweet potato with butter and maple syrup. If you are tired of boring baked potatoes, this is the book for you.Ialso recommend The Best Recipe by the same author. ... Read more

Isbn: 0936184426
Subjects:  1. Cooking / Wine    2. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    3. Cooking