Room with a View

Tis the year of the potato. A legume of largess, bounty and wealth. The type of plant your mom would like you to meet and would be comfortable with your own daughter going out on a date with. Which is to say potatoes are boring. After all who will argue that things which live below ground are generally uninteresting? Names such as russet, gold, and chocolate ginger brown street-cat are used in an effort to enliven and bring a note of hilartity to this otherwise pedestrian vegetable. Please understand I am no potato hater. They have uses such as in french fries, soups, vodkas, breads, vegetable fights, childrens games, accompaniments to meats, pancakes, and such. So yes, it must be granted, that they are indeed versitile. Though I will ask this... when is the last time you added potato flavoring to anything. My beef with potatoes is that I don't believe you've arrived as a foodstuff until you have an artificial flavoring created on your behalf, your hollywood star of fame if you will. Besides, you ever heard of anybody playing for big potatoes?