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LETTUCE PREY: FIVE WAYS TO RECAPTURE YOUR SALAD DAZE, Episode 2, By Ed Goldman

October 2008

LETTUCE PREY: FIVE WAYS TO RECAPTURE YOUR SALAD DAZE, Episode 2 If you're planning a meal meant to be nourishing, visually pleasing and flavor-diverse, you'd better not neglect Our Friends The Tubers &emdash; nor, for that matter, Our Close Acquaintances, The Legumes; Our Neighbors, The Plant Life; and Our Accountant, Herb.

POTATOES WITH A PEEL: FOUR WAYS TO SPICE UP YOUR SPUDS, Part 1 of 2 My late father-in-law once told me (before he was late, of course) that where he grew up in Illinois, "We always said, 'It ain't a meal without a potato.'" Now, regional pride being what it is, I couldn't bring myself to tell him that where I grew up, we said pretty much the same thing &emdash; although in New York, we tended to embroider even the simplest of statements: "It ain't a meal without no damn potater, Sheldon, and I ain't kiddin', yew lousy moron, ya heah what I'm sayin'? Look at me, Sheldon!"

POTATOES WITH A PEEL: FOUR WAYS TO SPICE UP YOUR SPUDS, Part 2 of 2 My late father-in-law once told me (before he was late, of course) that where he grew up in Illinois, "We always said, 'It ain't a meal without a potato.'"

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