Passion for Potatoes - by Lydie Marshall (Paperback)

About the Book

In this enthusiastic tribute to the world's favorite root vegetable, Marshall proves that the potato is more than just a side dish with recipes, detailed descriptions of each type of potato, storage suggestions, and advice on which potato is best to use for which dish.

Book Synopsis

200 recipes--from appetizers to desserts--for this nutritious and increasingly popular vegetable.

Potatoes are the world's best food. You can boil them, bake them, fry them, sauté them, grill, braise, roast, and microwave them. Potatoes are irresistible, and Lydie Marshall's recipes for them are sublime. The book is an international compendium of tempting and varied dishes by one of America's most talented cooks.

Review Quotes

"My faith in Lydie Marshall as a cook is unqualified. I would follow her, and anything she cooked, to the ends of the earth. "A Passion for Potatoes" is a must for everyone, for everyone who loves potatoes." -- Patricia Wells"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste."-- Alice Waters"Lydie's passion is our good fortune, an inspired treasure of succulent, homey food and culinary common sense; it is what everyday food should be and almost never is." -- Richard Olney"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best."-- Linda and Frank Griffith"The recipes in Lydie Marshall's wide-ranging potato book mirror her great good taste and concern for ease of preparation. Long live Lydie's ways with potatoes!" -- Cecily Brownstone