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THE POTATO EATERS

“THE POTATO SALADS I FELL FOR AS A CHILD WERE THOSE MADE BY OTHER PEOPLE'S MOTHERS. THEIR SHEER DECADENCE LEFT ME BREATHLESS”

I go weak at the knees for a potato salad. I have loved many in my lifetime. It's not something I make often because I cannot resist it. It is the only salad I have truly, desperately craved. Leftover potato salad and me? Fatal attraction.

My mother potato salad recipe made with mayonnaise, milk, parsley and chopped hard-boiled eggs. I remember the flavours fondly but not fanatically.

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