CHRIS RUNDLE

DON'T WRITE THEM OFF AS DULL - CHRIS IS HERE TO TELL YOU THERE'S A POTATO FOR EVERY OCCASION...

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TIME was - and it wasn't that long ago, I might add - when no one got excited about potatoes. Mainly because there was nothing to get excited about

Potatoes were a plain, old staple food. Lumpy, often covered generously in the soil they grew in and distinguishable one from the other merely by the season in which they appeared.

When meant that we had new potatoes for a few precious months of the year and threatening-looking, nubbly brown tubers the rest of the time. And the way we cooked them was the way we cooked everything else - without imagination, or injecting any excitement into (or indeed expecting any excitement from) the final result.