Tag Archives: Mashed Potatoes Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and for the past four years I wake on the Monday before Thanksgiving thinking of you—all my Whole Foods Market friends who are working this week. Thanksgiving week is the hardest week of the year in food retail. Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving, which means everyone is shopping, and almost everyone will […]  I saw this about twenty times on Face Book this week, and each time I laughed although I strenuously disagree, there is no such thing as the typical American Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving looks different throughout the USA. Though we’re almost all having turkey, that could be where the similarities end. I have spent years searching for […]  I didn’t grow up eating mashed potatoes, and when I tell people that my family has never had mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving they are always shocked. I think ours may be the only family in the USA that will not be eating mashed potatoes two weeks from today. I wouldn’t say we never ate them, but it wasn’t […] Everyone loves mashed potatoes, but do you like yours smooth or lumpy, smashed or mashed and silky? Chances are good that if you’re my age, your grandmother had a potato ricer, and you remember her mashed potatoes as creamy and silky. When I was growing up (in the 1960s) instant mashed potatoes began appearing, and […]  Let’s start with my favorite song about potatoes which pretty much says it all! Everyone loves potatoes! But in the past several years our potato options have grown exponentially, and when you get to the grocery store, almost any store, you are confronted with a wide selection of potatoes (without including sweet potatoes and yams). There […] |
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