60 Quotes About Potatoes

  • Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Smeagol won't go, O no precious, not this time,' hissed Gollum. 'He's frightened, and he's very tired, and this hobbit's not nice, not nice at all. Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?''Po - ta - toes,' said Sam.

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  • Author Melissa Ford
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    The name of my blog was already Life from Scratch, and the food became a natural extension. It turned out that writing about food was the perfect jumping board to discussing the rest of my life too. If nothing interesting was happening, I could talk about how I learned to roast potatoes (the trick: put the cubed potatoes in a bag; splash in the olive oil, salt, rosemary, and garlic powder; and then shake to coat each potato evenly.)

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  • Author Karl Jacoby
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    Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats.

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  • Author Hannah Mccouch
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    The dinner is delicious- the poivre sauce is perfect with the medium-rare duck, which cuts like butter. The potatoes are creamy, well seasoned, and cheesy, the rabe bright green, croquant and garlicky. Gustav has brought along a bottle of Cru Bourgeois, and I'm drinking it like grape juice.Dessert is an assortment of small tarts- vanilla crème brûlée with a chocolate crust, key lime, and pear.

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  • Author Yuto Tsukuda
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    The cheese I understand... but Chirimen Jako dried baby sardines?!And now he's mixing them with the potatoes and cheese to brown in a skillet? I'm completely lost!""But you know... the salty aroma of the sardines does go well with the cheese...

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