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I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.