So many potato-based recipes start with the same step: “Boil the potatoes.” You see it time and again in recipes for mashed potatoes, potato salad, and more. But it’s not a straightforward technique.

Not all spuds are created equal, and you shouldn't assume that any potato is going to get the job done when it comes to boiling, says Andrew "Kappy" Kaplan, host of the Beyond the Plate podcast and ...

In his poem “Digging,” Irish poet Seamus Heaney describes the sensation of holding potatoes as “loving their cool hardness in our hands.” That “cool hardness” is the start to a proper mash, which ...

We can all agree on this: We love potato salad. We love it at potlucks, picnics and pig pickin’s. We love it with hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas ham, and just because.