What would a sandwich be without chips on the side? Burgers minus fries are unimaginable. Potatoes are the main ingredient of casseroles, soups and salads. And nothing’s better than potato pancakes served hot out of a cast iron skillet.
It doesn’t matter whether they’re munched on raw in hope dinner will be ready soon, baked, fried, boiled, mashed and covered with gravy – potatoes are just plain ol’ good eatin’.
Eighty-two-year-old Larry Voris, who lives in Springfield, Missouri, remembers picking up potatoes with his brother when they were kids. “Dad was on the tractor, using an old lister plow to grub them out of the ground,” he says. “For some reason, I threw a rotten one at my brother, and Dad gave me a whippin.’ I was 16.”
Putting old iron through its paces
Eight or nine years ago, Larry became part of a church mission team that raises garden vegetables.
