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14 Vintage Potato Dishes That Deserve A Comeback By Holly Riddle Aug. 21, 2025 5:40 pm EST

Potatoes are seemingly everywhere in the American diet. At breakfast, you've got hash browns and home fries. Lunch or dinner? Fries, baked potatoes, potato soup, au gratin potatoes, potato salads, mashed potatoes — you could eat potatoes for every meal, for a not insignificant amount of time and still probably not run into the same way to eat potatoes twice. Meanwhile, while some have tried to malign the mighty potato, calling it a starchy, unhealthy food, potatoes actually are quite good for you in moderation, containing fiber, antioxidants, vitamin C, potassium, and more.

Potatoes haven't always been popular, though. First cultivated in the Andes, European invaders took the pot

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