Elevate your regular potato salad

Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back to the people, places and experiences of your life. Her stories take you all around the South and are accompanied with tried-and-true recipes that are destined to become a part of your memory-making as you share them with your friends and family.

I am a potato aficionado and can live up to that brag any day of the week.

First, I have an inordinate amount of love in my heart for all potatoes — yes, all — and that has to be criteria number one for my self-appointed title. Secondly, neither my enthusiasm nor my appreciation for them has ever waned, never: not when they were overly revered in the 1980s and '90s, not when they were vilified by Adkins and his ilk in the early Aughts, and certainly not now in the era of "expert" recommendations differing so dramatically and shifting so frequently.