potato-phile

See also: potatophile

English

Noun

potato-phile (plural potato-philes)

1. Alternative form of potatophile
   • 2003 November 19, Molly Woulfe, “Do the Mashed Potato”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., sectino “Mash notes”, page F2, column 2:

     Scratch a potato-phile, find an opinion on mashing styles.

   • 2006 March 8, Prue Salasky, “Party Irish style at Keagan’s”, in Daily Press, Newport News, Va., page F2, columns 5–6:

     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.

   • 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:

     And 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’.