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Roast chicken, chickpeas, and chorizo...with mash
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Market in Groningen – The all-important potato
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Asparagus with Ham, Potatoes, Boiled Egg and Melte…
Even Potato Is A Flower
Indoor farmers market
"Favorite Recipes", 1962
Pack This For Lunch (6293)
Armour Meat Ad, 1943
Morton Salt Ad, 1960
Pyrex Cookware Ad, 1963
The Sealtest Food Advisor, Spring 1937
Kingan's Shortening Leaflet (3), 1941
The one we forgot to eat
Bangers and mash
Eisbein before the Sauerkraut arrived
Eisbein with Sauerkraut
Hints From A Gourmet's Cook Book (3), c1955
Swedish Food (2), 1957
Kraft Dressings Booklet (3), c1957
potatos under netting
Durkee's Margarine Ad, 1952
Food Is Fun (5), c1950
Pet Evaporated Milk Booklet, 1960
Pet Evaporated Milk Booklet (2), 1960
Kraft Miracle Whip/Mayonnaise Ad (2), c1933
The Art of Cooking and Serving (7), 1934
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Hand-fried chips
Potato Merchants
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Idaho Potato
In the days before television or Photoshop, the farmers in Idaho made their own amusement by challenging each other to grow the juiciest watermelon, the sweetest pear, or the orangest pumpkin. In 1946, Farmer Homer Smith took up the challenge to grow the biggest potato. He spent the long winter in solitary contemplation of this conundrum, and in the spring he put his half-baked theory to the test, employing a combination of careful cross fertilization and liberal application of organic material obtained from the dairy farmer down the road. To the amazement of all, he harvested this whopper in the fall. Being both illiterate and furtive, Farmer Smith neither wrote nor spoke of the details of this fantastic accomplishment, and he took the formula with him to the grave. For a brief time, his cousin Arthur, an insurance agent with a keen eye for a growth industry, had his own success selling potato damage insurance to local homeowners who feared what one of these big guys could do if it rolled off a flatbed truck and into their front parlor. Alas, a potato this big has never been grown again.
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