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Spud Sunday: Kentucky Fried Spuds

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What does Kentucky taste like? Is it a mess of fried chicken, washed down with bourbon-laced mint juleps, while toes tap to the tune of a bluegrass soundtrack? Those, at least, are the things that I think of when I hear the name Kentucky.[...]

Spud Sunday: The Year In Spuds

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Ufff. Is it time to get up yet? I’m still in that bleary shadow-land of post-Christmas lethargy, not quite ready to wake up to the new year. So be kind and allow me to curl up for one more day and quietly ruffle through 2010, with its[...]

The Spuds that keep on giving...

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Remember this sack of potatoes that I was so excited about? Organic Rooster potatoes for a complete steal of a price? Well, despite our potato-loving ways we at Skint Vegan Towers didn't manage to get through them all before the inevitable[...]

Spud Sunday: From Russia With Spuds

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I don’t think I had quite appreciated how big potatoes were in Russia. And, no, I’m not talking about giant potatoes… Land of hammer, sickle ...and spuds …but about the fact that the Russian appetite for[...]

Spud Sunday: Spuds Of A Younger Land

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Mashed potatoes! The beatings, the maulings, and the ultimate degradation to a which an honest Irish potato must submit tomorrow turn me sad-eyed from my plate. Claire Warner Churchill, From “An Oregon Protest Against Mashed Potatoes”[...]

JACKET TATERS...Spuds We Like & a Giveaway

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"Worship the potato? The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship? It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it." Jack Handey Time for a savoury bite, and here's a[...]

Spud Sunday: Ancient Spuds, Modern Threats

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Can it really be a year since my first, momentous Potato Day experience? A whole year since I travelled the picturesque byways of Leitrim to the annual celebration of the humble noble tuber at the Organic Centre in Rossinver? Apparently, yes,[...]

Spud Sunday: New Spuds On The Block

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I have doubts on sprouts But peas they please And parsnips give me pleasure. But of all the veg I give this pledge Potatoes are my treasure. Extract from “King Spud” © 2010 Nick Balmforth Mr. Balmforth, author of[...]

Spud Sunday: New Spuds On The Block

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I have doubts on sprouts But peas they please And parsnips give me pleasure. But of all the veg I give this pledge Potatoes are my treasure. Extract from “King Spud” © 2010 Nick Balmforth Mr. Balmforth, author of[...]

Spuds Sweet Delight and a CSN Stores Giveaway

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Spuds.....Sweet....Delight. Yep...thats' what it says and that's what it is. Basically, we're talking about a sweet potato in cupcake version with a sweet maple and brown sugar icing. I think the icing needs some work. Not in flavor...but[...]