Meanings
plural potato-philes
- alternativeAlternative form of potatophile.
Scratch a potato-phile, find an opinion on mashing styles.
2003 November 19, Molly Woulfe, “Do the Mashed Potato”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., sectino “Mash notes”, page F2, column 22 more examples
The doughiness of the pancake was a shame, because the potato wedges and the smashed potatoes we ordered as sides with our other entrees would satisfy any potato-phile.
2006 March 8, Prue Salasky, “Party Irish style at Keagan’s”, in Daily Press, Newport News, Va., page F2, columns 5–6And he denied Parmentier, Cadet and ‘all the other potato-philes’ the right to ‘claim the glory of ever making [potato bread] as perfect as that from wheat, nor even of coming close’.
2014, E. C. Spary, “The kingdom of bread”, in Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Responses to Parmentier”, page 72
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