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Article: Potato salad: dress it up, send it out.(Back to Basics)
- Article from:
- Art Culinaire
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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There is nothing in the world wrong with the traditional potato salad
that grandma used to make ... But there are potato salads and there are
potato salads.
Craig Claiborne, Craig Claiborne's The New York Times Cookbook (3ed,
1979)
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, CHEFS HAVE BEGUN TO LOOK TO the American home table for inspiration, giving simple, well-loved dishes a fine dining upgrade. We've seen it happen to burgers, green salads, soups, macaroni and cheese, egg preparations, roasted chicken, sandwiches--but not, for some reason, potato salad. Long a staple of deli counters and picnic buffets, potato salad has rarely tempted chefs to reinvent and revive it the way ...