Word: potatoed
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Back when I was a kid, I spent a summer picking potatoes at a neighbor's farm. Slouched up and down the rows, stooped over, dragging a burlap bag full of spuds, dust in my nostrils, body all aching and racked with pain, and it seems to me that I have been picking potatoes in one form or another ever since. The boss man, Mr. Marse, kept telling me that potato picking is a great challenge and a boon to civilization and the manly thing to do and that if I quit working, my life would lose purpose and meaning...
...record, then, the Bush-Fox menu is a strongly crossover affair: Maryland crab and chorizo pozole served with summer vegetables, pumpkin seed-crusted bison with poblano whipped potato, fava bean and chanterelle ragout and apple chipotle sauce, salads of gold and red tomatoes and greens, followed by mango and coconut ice cream dome, peaches, raspberries, red chili pepper sauce and tequila sabayon. Hey, who needs Tex-Mex when you're eating chili pepper sauce with the ice cream...
...first thing you notice when getting on board is the new-car smell. "No wonder," says the flight attendant, hearing your remark. She points to a metal plaque on the doorway rim that says the Airbus A320 was delivered only a month ago. Then there are the blue potato chips from naturally blue potatoes. The free cable TV on your personal video screen. The leather seats. Flight attendants with a sense of fun about their jobs and a can-do pilot who informs over the p.a. system that yes, there's a major storm coming into the New York City...
SALMONELLA & FRIENDS Food-borne illness peaks in summer. Cold food in the sun is a danger--potato salad especially--or meat not thoroughly cooked...
...First Lady arranged the festivities, and guests included childhood friends, senior staff members and college fraternity brothers. The menu was appropriately all-American: Fried chicken, potato salad and corn bread...