Not all spuds are created equal, and you shouldn't assume that any potato is going to get the job done when it comes to boiling, says Andrew "Kappy" Kaplan, host of the Beyond the Plate podcast and ...

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Yukon gold. The Yukon gold is the ideal mashing potato. Its natural buttery taste puts it ahead of the curve, but what really seals the deal is the Yukon gold’s dense texture. The rarely grainy or ...

In his poem “Digging,” Irish poet Seamus Heaney describes the sensation of holding potatoes as “loving their cool hardness in our hands.” That “cool hardness” is the start to a proper mash, which ...