200 recipes--from appetizers to desserts--for this nutritious and increasingly popular vegetable. Potatoes are the world's best food. You can boil them, bake them, fry them, sauté them, grill, braise, roast, and microwave them. Potatoes are irresistible, and Lydie Marshall's recipes for them are sublime. The book is an international compendium of tempting and varied dishes by one of America's most talented cooks. "My faith in Lydie Marshall as a cook is unqualified. I would follow her, and anything she cooked, to the ends of the earth. "A Passion for Potatoes" is a must for everyone, for everyone who loves potatoes." -- Patricia Wells"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste."-- Alice Waters"Lydie's passion is our good fortune, an inspired treasure of succulent, homey food and culinary common sense; it is what everyday food should be and almost never is." -- Richard Olney"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best."-- Linda and Frank Griffith"The recipes in Lydie Marshall's wide-ranging potato book mirror her great good taste and concern for ease of preparation. Long live Lydie's ways with potatoes!" -- Cecily Brownstone 200 recipes--from appetizers to desserts--for this nutritious and increasingly popular vegetable. Potatoes are the world's best food. You can boil them, bake them, fry them, sauté them, grill, braise, roast, and microwave them. Potatoes are irresistible, and Lydie Marshall's recipes for them are sublime. The book is an international compendium of tempting and varied dishes by one of America's most talented cooks. Lydie Marshall is the author of Soup of the Day , A Passion for My Provence , A Passion for Potatoes , Chez Nous , and Cooking with Lydie Marshall . She owns Chez Lydie en Provence cooking school in Nyons, France. She divides her time between France and New York.