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To: mr.mark who wrote (7356)	4/29/2001 3:55:07 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13020

"Why is it we have enough religion to hate, but not enough to love one another?" anon.

To: mr.mark who wrote (7356)	5/1/2001 12:17:13 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13020

But in this country, mashed potatoes have no status. Nobody in America bothers to make real mashed potatoes anymore because there's no status in good home cooking.... Today the restaurants in Kansas City give you high-priced, mediocre, snobby French food and lousy American regional food. Because what could be more un-chic than mashed potatoes? Or more delicious! Lots of butter and salt and pepper and maybe a little bit of nutmeg. Most Americans don't even know how to BOIL potatoes. The Germans know. And the Scandinavians. Boil them, peeled or unpeeled, in plenty of well-salted water, and when they're done, put them back in the dry pot and shake them over the heat to dry them out until the outside looks floury. And whatever you do, don't overheat them--you don't want them wet and soggy. To begin with, get the right kind of potato: new potatoes if you want them waxy and firm, and old potatoes if you want them white, soft, and absorbent for gravy. ~Mimi Sheraton, quoted in Steven M. L. Aronson's HYPE, William Morrow & Company, NY, 1983.