| 单词 | potato |
| 例句 | I started trying to guess if there would be mashed potatoes and chicken. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dari seemed too friendly—we’d never actually spoken before, but here we were, chatting away while he stood there in a potato. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It’s better if I eat the other half potato so that he won’t be asking why he got a half. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They make me peel all the potatoes. She always has an excuse. Now they’ll probably make you peel her potatoes while she sleeps late.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you give her sweet potatoes again last night? I thought we stopped giving her those because they always give her the runs.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “They’ll put her to work mending curtains or peeling potatoes. Let’s talk about something more cheerful.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinnertime I help Mother peel sweet potatoes to stretch the rice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She stops and talks and buys potatoes and carrots from a young woman who sits behind hills of vegetables. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I filled the bucket with potato scraps and mutton fat, and put the pie on top. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Jewish street food—mashed potato in a pocket of fried dough—totally yummy.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A huge, golden-brown roasted chicken, fried potatoes, tiny green peas. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He’d barely eaten his first serving of potatoes, he’d been so busy thinking about his secret visit to the Sports Family house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Momma put down the knife she’d been peeling potatoes with and wiped her hands on a dish towel. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to tell her about that “Getting to Know You” paper dropped onto Mrs. Willibey’s desk like a hot potato or about Howard being my Backpack Buddy, so I just said, “Nothing.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Ashima had gone to visit her; for the occasion her grandmother had entered the kitchen after over a decade’s retirement, to cook Ashima a light goat and potato stew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t they grow potatoes like Grandfather does?” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the wooden bucket, bits of meat, cut carrots, potato fragments, and onion floated in a fragrant yellow broth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You can go back right now if you like. You can go pull sweet potatoes, or you can stay with us and learn how to fight barbarians and bandits.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were gray, ancient dried fish and jellies and potatoes sprouting wigs of grass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z While Mom carves the turkey, Dad dishes the carrots and corn and mashed potatoes and gravy into their respective bowls, and I fill the water glasses with ice cubes and water. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Her mother opened a bin and took out three baking potatoes and carried them to the sink. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We made sweet potato biscuits with molasses, which would have a lot of nutrition, and filled a bag full of little things that wouldn’t spoil. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, my mother went to the kitchen and made plates of cold meat and leftover potato salad, which she brought to the three of us hunched about the set. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why are you going now?” she asked, the chew of mealy potato thick in her braces. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He reached for more potatoes and winked at me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy brought out several bags of potato chips. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They finished the meager store of potatoes and carrots they had saved from the last agricultural area, and now they were always hungry. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Every second we were there he was serving people lined up to buy his stuffed potato balls or his creamy tembleque. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I stuck with the sweet potatoes and mushrooms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z She thought about telling him that, along with the roast, there'd been mashed potatoes and creamed corn, his new favorite. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was being bumped against the Giant’s leg like a sack of potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Or they would speak about the potato fields of Colorado, and the tragedy that befell them there. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their strange lumpy shapes looked like something soft that had frozen—like towers of mashed potatoes, Lina thought, that had hardened to stone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The first three do hold a book, a sweater, and a few potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The rations will last me till Sol 400.1 can't say for sure how long the potatoes will last, until I see how many I got. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But as a special treat she’d brought out a bag of potato chips she’d been saving for years and shared them, just with him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A couple of potatoes dropped off and bounced across the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He was spearing another piece of potato with his fork. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn mush had to take the place of stewed possum, dumplings, and potatoes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked to imagine that Mom’s job was to inhale bags of crunchy potato chips and document how many chips were really inside. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Nor did she notice that the taste of the meat was a bit off or the potatoes moldy. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He stood in front of the open doors and shook the potato plants in his hand. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He watched his mom mash potatoes with a masher as big as her arm. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Then I crept out of the potatoes and cautiously poked my tiny head over the edge of the sack. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I picked up a chunk of potato salad and flicked it in his face. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z They ate steak and eggs, fried potatoes and coffee, and then Testa- verde put down his mess tray and took a pad of paper and a pen from his pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I had never loved a strip of potato like this before. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z It was going to be ham and eggs that evening, with fried potatoes if you were early and bread and butter if you weren’t. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was no need to cook; Muff had filled their refrigerator with casseroles and fried chicken and potato salad and molded fruit gelatin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s almost impossible to keep my eyes open, my eyelids feeling heavier than a sack of potatoes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It was as if some scientist today discovered that he could get a potato to produce a substance that tasted just like chocolate. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The three of them lie on cotton blankets, wearing sunglasses and eating potato chips. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He was the most famous wood carver of the Solomons, an artist of great originality—but that did not free him of the necessity to grow his own sweet potatoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She would go home, she would make hot potato soup for the three of them, and then she would take out her new pencils and draw. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yesterday we had mashed potatoes, grapes, chicken glass of milk each ice cream each a big sauce dish full awful good too lemon pie cake don’t you think that is pretty good.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jason was piling the mashed potatoes on his plate with a practiced and steady motion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sam planted potatoes for Mrs. Strawberry and went back to his home in the hemlock tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was roast venison, of course, and flatbread, and sweet grilled onions and charred potatoes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was eating from an extra large bag of potato crisps and digging the stuff out in handfuls. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The girl had accidentally knocked over a pot of boiling potatoes and was badly scalded, and Generose, too poor to afford a ride to a hospital, was left to wrap her daughter’s burns with leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I grab a plate and scoop up a mountain of potatoes, eggs, and sausages, trying to keep from looking desperate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We had lunch along the creek—stewed mussels and wild potatoes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z During lunch at the cafeteria, Ramu offers me something from his lunch box, a pastry filled with mashed potatoes his mother made. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They intended to travel in March to a state-owned farm to plant potatoes, a job that provided regular meals. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I took another piece of potato and mashed it between my teeth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z There was no butter for the potatoes, but there was salt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t home by noon, or one, or two, and we boiled and ate the few potatoes the shopkeepers had given the day before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If the potato was symbolic of the Meecham family’s flight from Ireland, then the freight train was the lucky talisman of their redemption in the new world. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon Amari, peeling potatoes in the corner of the kitchen, listened as Lena, one of the house slaves, gossiped with Teenie. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma was real hot, but she surprised me, she just shook her head and went back to peeling potatoes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Foods that humans cannot digest in their natural forms—such as wheat, rice and potatoes—became staples of our diet thanks to cooking. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mamita! Don’t give her the biggest potatoes. Give me the biggest ones.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that night, the moon is a sliver in the sky, shining like a luminescent potato peel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She took up a hoe instead, and began to put every square inch of her sandy two-acre rented lot under cultivation: peanuts, sweet potatoes, and four dozen kinds of flowers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to know if we have any potato chips, which we don’t. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mr. Grote talks to me all the time—when I’m pulling feathers off the chicken, frying potatoes on the woodstove, sitting by the fire in the living room with a child in my lap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Knowing Mama, she’ll make roasted sweet potatoes drizzled with honey and sprinkled with cinnamon, like she always does on special occasions. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Everything is prepped and prewashed, since we don’t have running water. All we need to do is grill the salmon and potatoes, set out some utensils.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Who wanted potato chips that tasted like pickles? Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z There are so many side dishes, you can hardly count them—potatoes of all kinds, and cabbage and every other vegetable, and delicious breads. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z There was sawdust on the floor, and the air was filled with the aroma of spices, fruits, onions, nuts, and potatoes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she got up, pulled open a drawer, and threw a potato peeler and a knife in the sink The knife just missed my hand. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The housekeeper was sitting in the kitchen rocker, peeling potatoes for tomorrow’s hash. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Forks continue clinking on the table; Becky keeps on digging her fork in her boiled potato. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The bucket made its way around the room at a snail’s pace as each man studied the contents and chose a small portion of discarded potato or bread or gristle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The potatoes had to be peeled while they were hot, she explained, because the skin stuck if they got too cold. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The cabbage is soft and hot and there are plenty of potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He decides which bananas, grapes, onions, and potatoes the company will sell and makes sure that there is always enough. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “No couch potatoes in the family,” I once said to Farmer’s mother. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z These women squatting, knees wide apart in their long wrapped skirts, throwing handfuls of peppers and small potatoes into hissing pans over cookfires? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kidney beans, peanuts, green and red chili peppers, sorrel, cress, and quinoa, yucca and cucumbers, and of course potatoes and corn were piled, steaming, into the people’s bowls. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Also, have I mentioned I'm sick of potatoes? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd stuffed it with bags of M&M’s and barbecue potato chips. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field and arrange straw for their eggs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The result of the sweet potato’s arrival was a highland population explosion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "My old lady'll be out here with some hot sweet potato fried pies." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy opened the door and saw that the coach was heavily loaded with raw potatoes and a huge iron kettle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The catfish fried in long pans with the potatoes and onions at the other end, popping in the grease. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The nightshade plant is related to the potato, which accounts for the similar shape of the flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Hollow wood handles on the bottom, high- explosive charges in a steel can on top—handheld bombs the boys at Schulpforta called potato mashers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two giant-sized bags of potato chips rested in either comer of the red plush sofa. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a word to me, Mamita goes inside to heat up soup for lunch, and Papito heads for the potato fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally, it takes at least 90 days to yield full-sized potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wonderful,” Papa said, taking in the bright orange cubes of sweet potato nestled among the fried green beans and onions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “So . . . Thomas,” the boy said through a huge bite of mashed potatoes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I cut each potato into four pieces, making sure each piece had at least two eyes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The family scrounged a potato, sometimes, a bit of bannock. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I sacrifice another chicken and use the rest of the potatoes to make a stew they can take upstairs, and while it’s boiling, I try to comb the fleas from Max’s hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A tear rolls down Emma’s cheek and splashes on her cheesy potatoes. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I would settle for hay and a potato. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z You cook the meat in animal fat over high heat to sear it, then add potatoes and vegetables and the rest. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One night, Dad asked me to peel potatoes for dinner. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I unwrap the potato from its wax paper, and it steams its lovely, earthy smell under my nose. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Everything tasted amazing except for the potato salad, which had competing flavors of curry and celery. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I could only think of how they would taste with roast potatoes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry up—I want to get the potatoes boiling before class begins.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was a breaded veal cutlet, spinach, mashed potatoes, and prune whip. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh for heaven’s sake, ” she snapped, now directing her wand at a dustpan, which hopped off the sideboard and started skating across the floor, scooping up the potatoes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On the way back Jan happened to run into Mr. van Hoeven, the man who supplies us with potatoes, and told him of the break-in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She put a freshly peeled potato in the colander and picked up another one. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He found a small strip of potato skin and ate it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z All there is to store work is watchin’ out for rice weevils and rotten potatoes, and keepin’ the rats out of the seed corn.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When we came back with the stones and pots of water, she unloaded garlic and carrots and potatoes and turnips and chuck beef and tomatoes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Along with yams, sugarcane, and potatoes, we grew cotton on forty acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved over to that corner of the bin and scooped the potatoes out of the way, heaping them behind me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was pretty bad that someone was named after a type of potato. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse girl cooked a potato over the fire and ate it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I took the large pan of potatoes that she was handing me and a knife and a wooden bowl, and I worked silently, sometimes peeling, and sometimes driving away the bothersome flies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As the train started slowing people were falling out of the cars like potato bugs on a spring plant. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Impudent strumpet, impudent strumpet. The devil Luxury with his fat rump and potato finger ...” “John.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z By six that evening, my mother was in the kitchen with Nikki, holding Shani as she cooked potato pancakes for our dinner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Slowly, I gathered my little sack of clothes and said goodbye and thank you, wishing I’d finished the bread and the coffee, because it would be nothing but potato soup at home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As Jack and Moniek worked, each managed to make a few peels extra thick, so they contained some potato, and then slip these into their pockets to eat later. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “That was us, a few months ago,” I tell Sara as we watch our brothers get a little too enthusiastic with the potato masher. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z "And these are the potatoes for our supper. And this is the sweater I’ve just picked up from mending." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Anyway, fellowship at Christ Temple really means snack time, and snack time really means fried or baked chicken, potato salad, green beans, pound cake, and soda. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I give her a spoonful of potato salad while Spot gobbles his hot dog. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z For some reason I was starving, and I piled my plate with fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, okra. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Only the nurslings did not work at picking up the potatoes and placing them in the barrels. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Frogmore stew didn’t have frogs in it, but it did have crab and shrimp cooked in a rich tomato broth with corn and potatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Big, heaping plates of meat and potatoes and gravy, and steaming black coffee. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I go to the market on the way home, even though there are only a few booths selling on a Sunday, and get some cabbages and more potatoes to give some excuse for my absence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Feeling foolish, I placed the potato between my lips and put my face close to its beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She even knew one story about an old warrior who came back as a potato. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I checked my cache of wild onions to see if I had enough to make onion soup, and set aside some large firm groundnuts for mashed potatoes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I was almost tempted to ask my parents to fry some chicken and mash some potatoes and grill some corn on the cob, but that would’ve only stopped Arthur from discovering more about me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Mom is lifting a forkful of potatoes, smiling as she bites. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I get up from the table finally and put some of my meat loaf and half a potato on a saucer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the potatoes barely bring in enough money to live on,” explained little Willy. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mina finds potatoes and parsnips in the pantry, and boils them along with leaves of kale. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We were afraid to crunch our potato chips, afraid we might miss something. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Barbarossa kicked and struggled, but Scipio threw him over his shoulder like an old sack of potatoes and carried him all the way to the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Tonight’s rui fish was spiced with black pepper and turmeric, and Ma had made her tasty cauliflower and potato curry. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z There’s a lovely smell from the dinner can, boiled bacon and cabbage and two big floury white potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The wagon held potatoes and onions, not many of them, but quite a few. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like trying to wrap a loose peck of potatoes into a neat four-cornered package. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When Papa and I were digging out the last of the potatoes, he said, “Put your fork down and rest a spell.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dropping the potato chip in her beak, she cried, “I leave you alone for a few minutes, and look what happens! What on earth?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then he sat out away from the fire as he sipped soup and ate one of the baked potatoes that Cole had wrapped in aluminum foil and cooked in the embers. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Lock the girl in the potato bin, then come upstairs.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Paqo told me that these guesthouses were normally stocked with corn, potatoes, and dried strips of llama meat, as well as wood for fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I close my eyes real tight-like and picture the spread her mom’s made: chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and buttered corn, all with a side of love. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In this case, Momma, who had told Auntie Aggie that she wanted a nice mashed potato with dinner. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Two of our fellows have been out in the fields all the morning hunting for potatoes, carrots and green peas. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes in the swells and sailors were bending over and regurgitating the beef stew and instant mashed potatoes of that evening’s dinner onto the ridged metal floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And be careful with tune and turn: I think I’ll tune in to my favorite TV show and turn into a couch potato. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I look forward to tending my potato farm in the wide open space of the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he began to burrow out of sight under the loose heap of potatoes. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “John the Baptist, get the hell out of those potato chips.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a dozen crows were pecking around her potatoes and winter vegetables. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother says we’ll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Chinese without sons stole the boy babies of Japanese settlers who left them bundled up at the ends of the potato rows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Small feathers, rich red and deep blue, were appearing, and he was growing larger on the many potatoes and corn kernels I fed him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z While I was still in dresses he put me to sorting nails at the store and getting out rotten apples and potatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A moon-gray cat strolled into the garage and settled down on a cushion of potatoes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of the day in bed, racked by chills and cramping muscles, and choked down the leftover potato kugel and beef kishka that Mrs. Brenner kindly brought over for dinner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Stella raced through her chores, making sure the carrots were sliced perfectly, the potatoes peeled thinly, and the table cleaned and shined for dinner. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As soon as the meat singed and slightly burnt, she cleaned the beavers, washed their carcasses with salted water and stuffed them with corn and potatoes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Supplies for the club’s first recipe are piled on the island: a brown bag labeled zebra basmati rice, a bucket full of onions and potatoes, a bunch of wilting cilantro, and a few bright tomatoes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “You can tell yourself it’s potato chips, only nutritious. Sprinkle it on the tuna and it’s dinner fit for a king.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But he does not get up, and Madame Manec keeps chopping potatoes, and when she is done, Marie-Laure hears her push a load of them into the water with the back of her knife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The potato is dry and mealy in my mouth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z South Americans learned how to raise potatoes and llamas, unaware of what was going on in either Mexico or the Levant. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always leaving something lying around—potato chips, pretzels, half a cupcake. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Rae returns with drinks, hands a grilled chicken salad to Rufus, and places sweet potato fries and French toast in front of me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We ordered the same thing pretty much every Friday—pot roast, Brussels sprouts, and mashed potatoes—and when it came, we ate every bite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He studies my face, and I feel self-conscious, wondering if they’ve noticed I’ve only had two bites of meat and a quarter of a potato, and worrying I’ll somehow get in trouble. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She sucked a glob of hot potato from her finger, chasing it with another sip from her wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to tell me you'd rather be mashed potatoes than crème brûlée?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Why were you talking about eggs and potatoes?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “As soon as they cool down, peel the potatoes like this, Justin.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We had potatoes and carrots buried in the straw and salt pork bangin’ from the rafters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I heat up chicken and potato soup and rice, crying. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “May I go out to my trough and see if I left any of my supper? I think I left just a tiny bit of mashed potato.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It is a scene of peasants sitting around a table eating potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We boil potatoes with their skins, so we won’t waste a thing, and eat them with butter and salt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Then they drove away to deposit the crop in the potato barns with earth heaped high about their sides to prevent freezing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I usually make the potato salad at home. Now she got him I guess she wants to eat his nasty potato salad.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not even opened her Powerhouse bar or her potato chips, and now she traced the letters on the candy wrappers with her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z You can see a stack of ears next to the eggplants, onions, apples, bananas, and potatoes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bake this comforting casserole in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes, or until the potato chips are lightly browned. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The potatoes I'd been expecting have apparently either been clarified to an essence or were used to stoke the grill. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "Little did I know," he said, "that one of my rescuers' wives was carefully feeding the Alsatians with potato crisps to divert their attention from the car." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Later, after they’d eaten a lunch of boiled eggs and potatoes with bread, Tariq napped beneath a tree on the banks of a gurgling stream. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I shall need to buy bean seeds and chilli seeds, and perhaps a few young pumpkin vines...sweet potatoes of course...I have made a lot from my vegetables before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Vincent, he has spent much of his free time taking long walks into the countryside outside the city, past fields of wheat, inhaling the familiar aromas of hay and potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I can only see third- grade Rachel who liked barbecue potato chips and who braided pink embroidery thread into my hair that I wore for months until my mom made me cut it out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously. Your screaming and yelling slowed your mother down. Gave her time to figure out why you were acting like you had hot potatoes in your pants.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a great dinner, even if the burgers were dry and the potatoes were salty and the salad didn’t have any tomatoes because David had swiped them all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some days more than six hundred families stood in line for a handout of rice, oatmeal, potatoes, flour, and coffee, along with a little meat if there was any to be had. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In all likelihood he’s the one who stole the potato flour, and now he’s trying to pin the blame on Bep. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He plucked out a potato and offered a similar report. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The food arrives, and it is not pasta and veal pounded thin, but creamed chicken over biscuits, and hamburger steak and gravy with peas and rolls and mashed potatoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z To his surprise, Jack saw a potato floating in the thin soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “So, Matthew,” she said, scooping potatoes with a spoon, and eating a little at a time, like cheesecake. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We had a good meal, a roast chicken, new green beans, mashed potatoes, a salad, and some apple-pie and cheese. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “But I will give her potato my neighbor give me last week. Hai, I will give her if you would like it.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Smoky collards, turnips, sweet potato pie, and the rest of the kitchen’s concoctions sat in the Valentines’ nice dishes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My sister came in eventually to bring me a bowl of potato chips, and when she found the boy and the girl, they stopped. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Yet it is also true that the very same troubles that loom catastrophically large one day can seem like small potatoes the next, particularly if even worse troubles have popped up to take their place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z We’ll have eggs and rashers on Sunday for breakfast and ham and cabbage and potatoes for dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Each of my peanut-brown babies I called my nzolani, and said it with the taste of fish and fire and new potatoes in my mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We stopped at a diner so he could get something to eat, since he hadn’t eaten for most of two days except for the Baptist potato chips and breakfast with Pastor Greenleaf. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Dinner was prawn cocktails in wine glasses for starters, lamb chops with chef’s hats with duchesse potatoes and braised celery for main, and a Baked Alaska for "dessert," not "afters." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Wash couldn’t see the girl from where he was unloading potatoes into the cellar of Turner’s General Store, but through the trapdoor opening he recognized her shoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was in bad shape, but well stocked: big sacks of potatoes and onions, cornmeal, things in cans. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As they filled the potato kettle at the pump, he looked at Jemmy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Chicken, carrots, and sweet potatoes, bread pudding with homemade vanilla ice cream and homemade chocolate sauce. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z When they came out, they went into the kitchen and they put food on the table together, my father looking so out of place carrying a bowl of mashed potatoes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s piled high with pork chops, collard greens, mashed potatoes, and baked apples. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Would you care to inspect all of our clothing, James? Perhaps you’d send a man to root through the potatoes and parsnips in the cellar.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z One time, Blanca had to remind him please not to grab the potatoes with his hand and put them on her plate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was younger, I had made it a point to study the location of the maize and potatoes I had planted and had snuck back to the fields to see if they had grown. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Biscuits and two packets of jelly which he could eat, cube by cube, some potato crisps and half a box of processed cheeses. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z After that, ten times more zealous, I planted beans and sweet potatoes, brinjals and chillies, and they all grew well under my hand, so that we ate even better than we had done before. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When we go home Mam makes tea and bread and jam or mashed potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He looked up when he saw me leaving Mr. Neely’s classroom and shifted in his homemade potato. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My body was in the wrong position when I hit, and I tumbled over backward with all the grace of a bag of potatoes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. Mrs. Beale used to have potatoes a lot, mashed and every other way.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The potato bin was near empty, and Ruth asked to play in it as if it was a little house. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell was delicious—warm milk, potato skins, wheat middlings, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and a popover left from the Zuckermans’ breakfast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z There was a small window that customers could walk up to and get familiar bites like Cuban sandwiches or a howl of Abuela’s chicken soup with chunky potatoes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The other is of Mrs. Smeath by herself, with a sickle-moon paring knife and a skinless potato, unclad from the waist up and the thighs down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He cursed again and tried to rise, managing only to get to his knees before dropping like a sack of potatoes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Those will be the best mashed potatoes you ever put in your mouth,” she snapped at anyone who raised an eyebrow at me mashing the potatoes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Frau Elena brings a plate; on it sits a single boiled potato cut in two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She said her daddy would be cleaning God out of his potato salad. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid had come striding around the corner of his cabin wearing a large flowery apron and carrying a sack of potatoes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My body is no longer made of dirty potatoes just pulled out of the earth and wild, weedy herbs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That means the source of those calories is not a potato farm but a field of corn or soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After that there was some meat and fried potatoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The citation goes on to say that the best time to dig wild potatoes “is in the spring as soon as the ground thaws.... During the summer they evidently become dry and tough.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think after what happened to Immie, he just had no fight left in his body. He and Immie, they were my sweetie potatoes.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He showed me how to roll it out into circles, cut them in half, and put a spoonful of pea and potato filling in the middle of each one. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After Ugwu put the potatoes to boil, he gave her a bath, dusted her body over with Pears talcum powder, and brought out her pink nightdress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Even the potatoes had small but healthy looking green vines coming. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not unusual for the owner of a beautifully decorated and well-kept yard to wake up in the morning and see an empty bag of Lay’s potato chips or Cheez Doodles drifting through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Big Ma told me to come peel potatoes.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I found a bag of potato chips in the cupboard and helped myself to those and to a Coke. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, and whatever you do, don’t eat okra or sweet potato leaves.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She eased her head out a little farther and saw a shattered bowl, the one her mother had used to serve Henry’s mashed potatoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think just seeing the potato itself. It reminds them of how happy we all were when we made it.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She also went to my favorite little Japanese cafe and got me a bento box of Japanese fried chicken with rice, miso soup, and potato salad. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Harry rather thought some bogeys landed on the potatoes, and was inwardly thankful that they were not staying for dinner. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For the last two weeks lunch has been either spinach or cooked lettuce with huge potatoes that have a rotten, sweetish taste. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Besides, we still have about two hundred and thirty pounds of winter potatoes in the spice storeroom.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The children crawled over the shelves and into the potato and onion bins, twanging all the time in their sharp voices like cigar-box guitars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid delivered bread heels and bowls full of beef and potato stew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Peas and carrots, potatoes, real hot vegetable soup, and applesauce.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I managed a drumstick and a couple scoops of mashed potatoes and coleslaw and then excused myself. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The potato wedges have that crisp, golden look that I like. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She shifted a can of pears, a shriveled carrot, and two small potatoes to one side. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There was steak and fried potatoes and coffee. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the yard, small groups of indfgena women are stirring steaming pots of beans and chicken broth over fires, and peel- ing an enormous mountain of potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our bed was a thin mattress stuffed with old corn husks in front of the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. van D. came up with the ridiculous idea of frying fewer potatoes in the morning and saving them for later in the day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The menu was always the same: fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, boiled okra, sliced tomatoes, corn bread, and chocolate or coconut cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The mother immediately appeared in the door with a dish of meat and right behind her the sister with a dish piled high with potatoes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z After corn came hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, and cherries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was frying some potatoes, and he was eating rice pudding. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Christina’s smile falls, and she pokes at her potato with her fork. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She was skinny and had an okay body, but she always managed to make it look like a sack of potatoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Navid whined all day, even though he was given the simplest task of making mashed potatoes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Janssen is still waiting for me to respond, standing in the dark space, where the air is stale and smells faintly of old potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Fried chicken, potato salad, ham sandwiches, chocolate cupcakes, even a jumbo can of peaches in heavy syrup. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Just last week we helped Mama plant collard and mustard green seeds and sweet potatoes to harvest later in the fall and into winter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Please find out from Corporal Snark if he put laundry soap in the sweet potatoes again,” he requested furtively. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A tasteless soyburger, a lump of runny mashed potatoes, and some unrecognizable form of cobbler for dessert. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s a long walk from Union Cross to Barrack Hill and when I get home my family are up in Italy and well into their pig’s head and cabbage and floury white potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew the barman and sat on a high stool and ate salted almonds and potato chips. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It seemed to put him at ease, and he finally took a bite of his mashed potatoes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "Ain't I been listening to your stomach rumbling- bumbling for the last hour? Do me the kindness of filling the kettle at the pump. Soon as the potatoes are boiled up, we'll feast, eh?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I eat shrimp and sweet potato cakes and write words on blank lined paper: “fade,” “extinguish,” “evaporate,” “niqabize.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In no time the house smelled like spaghetti and fish sticks, instead of the chewy and mushy three p's Clayton’s mother left for them: pork chops, peas, and potatoes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z There were potatoes with cumin, chickpeas cooked with onion and ginger, several kinds of curries, and platters of melons and mangoes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I keep a little packet of salt in a shoebox under my bed, and I pinch a bit onto the potato and keep reading. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When they had just bread and potatoes too many times at home, Francie’s thoughts went to dripping sour pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Early one morning, when no guard was around, Moniek caught a Hungarian Jewish prisoner trying to steal potatoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Look at you. Bloody look at you. You’re stunning. And this is how you dress when you’re all alone in the middle of the night? And in potato sacks when you’re out in broad daylight?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The next day, Christmas Day, in the middle of Christmas dinner, Jorge suffered a heart attack, flipped over in his chair, his mouth full of candied sweet potato, and died. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But potato farmers aren't in a desperate race for survival like I am. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t understand why, if the state was willing to give us packages of meat, sacks of potatoes and fruit, and cans of all kinds of things, our mother obviously hated to accept. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s odd, but I didn’t hear a single one of the potato pickers say “By gar,” and they must have seen the pictures and known what is right. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We had eaten almost nothing but instant mashed potatoes for a week. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I caught it bare-handed, then dropped it like a hot potato. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “At least, I can send him the cabbages, but only one small crate of potatoes.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days except for a few stalks of grass and some potato peels found on the grounds of the kitchens. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I could easily bring the Hab's microwave into the rover and wire it in, but the energy required to cook ten potatoes a day would actually cut into my driving distance. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Roza had just raided the fridge and pantry, setting out ingredients for another of her Polish dishes—flour, potatoes, onions, butter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In her basket she had some fat meat, potatoes, and a small bottle of vanilla flavoring, which she had bought with the money she got for her walnut kernels. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Maize was a high-status food there even though Andean cultures had developed their own agricultural system, with potatoes occupying the central role. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What if I add chicken to this rice and potato dish? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Or it might be that a food is fun to eat—like ridged potato chips or cereal bars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Other days, it’s a sandwich, baby carrots, and a bag of potato chips. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Lunch today consists of mashed potatoes and pickled kale. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When it rained, I exercised in the downpour, grateful not to be pulling sweet potatoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Frypan and his cooks served up a grand meal of steak, mashed potatoes, green beans and hot rolls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There was no need to starve, so she ate the stew and mashed potatoes with relish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We sat down to a feast of the ham, huge plates of fried potatoes, ham gravy, hot com bread, fresh butter, and wild bee honey. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a lot of potatoes,” I said, looking at about five pounds of dirty stones on the counter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Eggs over easy, fried potatoes and onions, yellow hominy and crisp perch fried so hard we would pop them in our mouths and chew bones, fins and all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the staple crops of highland agriculture are the recently introduced sweet potato, along with taro, bananas, yams, sugarcane, edible grass stems, and several leafy vegetables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We had barely crawled out of the potato cellar when the Polish girl began to cry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Moses’s first whipping for stealing a potato, and his second whipping for idleness, when Connelly had the boy’s wounds washed out with hot pepper until he howled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He holds up my empty potato chip bag. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z There are delicious smells in the room, cabbage, potatoes, and the pig’s head, but when Dad lifts the head from the pot to a plate Malachy says, Oh, the poor pig. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She had been so rough with the potatoes that they were basically mashed potatoes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Because of the bread shortage, we eat potatoes at every meal, starting with breakfast, but then we fry them a little. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z While he hadn’t been watching, the leaves on the maples had turned the color of sweet potatoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma made her a stew with spinach, yams, potatoes, and dumplings. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z First she forces warm boiled potatoes through a ricer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The two of them sat in Jack’s parlor and talked into the night while Jack cooked big plates of soul food, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato pies, and biscuits for us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The tourist traffic on Highway 66 was gone now, and Tayo imagined white people eating their mashed potatoes and gravy in some steamy Grants cafe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In a minute, sausage, eggs, potatoes, bread, juice, and hot chocolate appear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much in the garden yet beyond spring onions and baby kale, but she still had some potatoes and carrots in the root cellar, and cooking had brought them back to life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her knife falls through what sounds like potatoes, the blade striking the wooden cutting board beneath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew from the potatoes and peas, that Kazi was going to make samosas, which he hardly ever does. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Right now it’s telling me ye can’t wait to get this tour over with so ye can get back to that slice of sweet potato pie ye got stashed back in your room.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z On the plates, Ivy saw slices of ham and melted cheese between slices of thick multi-grain bread, mouth-watering kettle-cooked potato chips on the side. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As a spray applied to potato fields to destroy the vines they have taken a toll of human and nonhuman life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Helvi ladled the head with some broth and potatoes into a saucer and put it on the floor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Like always, Jake used the bottom of his spoon to form a crater in his mashed potatoes. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then you could trade your sturdy military men’s underwear with local people in exchange for potatoes or milk. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We got some fried fish and what they called chips, fried potatoes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Fetus being the size of a sweet potato. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing to tell. We’re sitting here, and I’m thinking about peeling potatoes.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But I went straight home because I wanted to boil myself some potatoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He was a tall man, bald as a peeled potato, with a high forehead and a long chin. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sniffed the delicious odor of steak and meat loaf and baked potatoes. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A hamster is basically just a warm potato with fur. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It was a sad one, or why did her heart feel like a lump of poorly mashed potatoes? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Pierogi filled with potatoes, cheese, and onions, fried in butter. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Ty'ree had fried chicken and made mashed potatoes and corn with red peppers in it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Here, everyone talked about Santa Claus bringing presents the next morning, and Mrs. Baxter planned on making a ham, scalloped potatoes, and her special carrot-pineapple gelatin salad for our Christmas Day lunch. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z At one end a trapper skinned his raccoons and at the other Florence scraped dirt from a mound of sweet potatoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “No, you and I have work to do here. Can you peel potatoes?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen table is covered with food—my favorites, potato salad, lemon meringue pie, pork chops. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Oma ladles thick, milky potato soup, carefully scraping the bottom to find enough for all of them. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They’d had fried potatoes, too, in the days before the cooking oil ran out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Every scrap of arable land had been terraced and planted with barley, bitter buckwheat, or potatoes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Amari nodded and tried to focus on the mountain of potatoes in front of her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Or it is a type of tiny potato that turns up in the market now and then, always sold in bunches that clump along the roots like knots on a string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We were told to take the potatoes and onions out of their bins and knock out the dividing walls that kept them apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The cooking and baking become a group effort, with Siunek and Max and even Schillinger sometimes lending a hand, since he had always been the one to peel the potatoes for his wife. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s a popular place to get anything with fake mashed potatoes and gravy. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I sculpt my mashed potatoes into a little mountain. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Gitano ate very slowly, cutting tiny pieces of meat and arranging little pats of mashed potato on his plate. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know, but why go all that long way? Miss Bertha got potato chips.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a morning potato and Vicodin, I was feeling much better. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That night at supper Mrs. Byrne serves chopped beef, potato salad stained pink by beets, and rubbery cabbage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z If you forgot to pay attention to it the lid would blow off like a bomb, and the carrots and potatoes would be hurled to the ceiling, where they’d stick like mush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I took a handful of the potato wedgies from the bag that Mtisha offered me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a working lamp that was powered by a potato. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s corned beef and plenty of potatoes, and I shall get some asparagus and a lobster, ‘for a relish’, as Hannah says. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In a new galley made by wrapping canvas around four oars stuck upright in the snow, Green kept the hot potato can stoked. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z There were only two feed bins in the barn built to keep out mice and I’d already stacked one with potatoes and the other halfway with nuts and com and cabbages. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came the Irish, running from the potato famine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to bang their heads together as they greeted him with loud convivial cries and invited him generously to pull up a chair and eat their chestnuts and roasted potatoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The sandwiches are gone now, the potato salad too, and everybody knows that the time for lights-out music is approaching. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled a potato from my pocket and held it out to him. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Some South American crops nevertheless did succeed in reaching Mesoamerica, such as manioc, sweet potatoes, and peanuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then his mother, sprinkling salt on a baked potato, said ever so casually, “You don’t happen to know anyone looking for a lost cat, do you?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Thanks to Big Ma, I could skin a potato with a paring knife without wasting a scrap of white potato. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad had already started scooping mashed potatoes onto his plate. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They sat down to eat right away—cold chicken, thick slices of ham and cheese, potato salad, macaroni salad, bread, plenty of lemonade, a seven-layer cake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They have their breakfast in aluminum take-out trays that contain eggs, sausages, and potatoes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z There were never any potato chips tucked into his food vaults, no chocolate bars or marshmallow figurines. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “A hand-grenade. One of those potato mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off. You know those potato mashers?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Paint peeled off the cinder-block walls in chunks the size of potato chips. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “I said, go get the fork. The potatoes are burning.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept her back to us as she chopped potatoes and onions for hash browns. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Then she would bring other foods—like hash brown potatoes, bacon, and sausage—out of the refrigerator and place it all near the grill as well, ready to be cooked when an order was placed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were more vegetables, including potatoes, in a larger vegetable garden farther behind the house, next to a field of rye. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s as if she’s stepped down off the wall, the walls: the same round raw potato face, the hulky big-boned frame, the glittering spectacles and hairpin crown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I open a bag of barbeque potato chips. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Nathan could smell the amazing aroma of fried potatoes and Spam. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I have eaten girlfriend’s potato salad and it’s not all that but I saved that for later. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I sat her down at the table and gave her a knife and some potatoes to peel. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A shop made from blue tarpaulin sells fried potatoes and falafel, bowls of rice, and sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As for the half bushel of potatoes, they had begun to sprout in their sack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The potato is a mess of jagged bits on her cutting board. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But three-quarter ration is hard to maintain, so now I'm eating potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Without complaint, he ate his dinner—a dry brown sponge that he thought was supposed to be meat loaf and gelatinous mashed potatoes, though he left the hockey-puck roll alone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mom is a great believer in instant mashed potatoes, frozen dinners, and Hot Pockets. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I scrape the cheese off a sliver of potato—which will not kill me, potatoes rarely cause death—and shove it in my mouth and chew, chew, chew, smiling across the acres of tablecloth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The potatoes had become soft and discoloured, and only a few were edible. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “It’s rubbish,” said Ron, still glaring down at his potato. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They were scattered here and there among untidy stands of mealies, rioting pumpkin vines, and sweet potatoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweet potatoes grown on California fields where BHC had been used two years earlier contained residues and had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I might as well try the bacon and cabbage too and if I eat the other potato he’ll surely think she didn’t send one at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mamita begins serving the soup, ladles the biggest potato into a bowl, and hands it to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The one with potatoes and turnips in it.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There is plenty of salt and butter in the potatoes and I wonder if there’s any chance Minnie could be my mother so that I could eat like this all the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They don’t have much top, but lots of knotty roots, shaped sort of like sweet potatoes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be stew with some biscuits and maybe some meat and potatoes for dinner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Supper the first night," he recalled, "consisted of one item—boiled potatoes." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Pesza worked at the electrical company outside the ghetto, and from time to time, she, too, brought back bread or a potato or two. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She is eating potato chips and they look delicious, by the way. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Olive screamed and several of us flinched in vicarious pain as Horace dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes, loose change and train tickets spilling out of his pockets. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But I bought another five hundred sols of life with my potato farm, so they have more time to work on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody needs a pile of newspapers: to peel potatoes on, serve bathroom needs, wrap garbage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s time for me to get some more potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene looked pointedly at me over the potato pancakes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The dinner is delicious, turkey, mashed potatoes, peas, jelly and custard, and a pot of tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z After a long, bumpy, windy ride in the bed of a pickup back to Yana Urku, I was still buzzing with excitement, eager to show off the purple potatoes to Mamita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bureau of Nutrition Education has distributed endless flyers encouraging us to eat potato skins, drink skim milk, try cow brains. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I ate some more ribs, some fried chicken, and a mess of potato salad. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew how to make a medium-rare steak, baked potato on the side, in ten minutes flat for hungry customers always in a hurry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z My stomach felt like it was eating itself those times I had nothing but a scoop of lumpy mashed potatoes, but it was worth it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I stack my fists into two potatoes on the desk in front of me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z There were hot dogs and hamburgers and soda pop and potato chips and watermelon and cantaloupe. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He did seasonal work in the lettuce and potato fields up north for a few years; then he stayed home, with the family, trying to keep up the west side house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The smells of cabbage, potatoes, and meat on top of burnt cornstarch, lavender, and metal from an afternoon of ironing saluted me when I walked inside Ma Charles’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes Mother and Granny did not have anything to cook but potatoes, three meals a day. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of blind children peeled potatoes and sang lustily to the gathering people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Ellie wasn’t helping matters, prancing around in her new hose, making a big show of helping Momma with the ham. and sweet potatoes for dinner. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She lifts the pot to the table, spoons out the potatoes one each and uses a fork to lift out the corned beef. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A pewter bowl of cold meat, carrots, and potatoes sat beside the bed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z As though she’d forgotten about all the times I’d hit her and refused to share fruit and yelled at her in a jealous rage over who would get the biggest potato. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were none there, nor in the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The women cut up chickens, peeled plantains, cubed potatoes, made sofrito, washed dishes, brewed coffee, and tended babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The worst bore down upon the Irish in the 1840s, when the potato crop, their food of life, rotted in the ground for four years running, and landlords heartlessly threw their tenants into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z To Father, peeling potatoes is not a chore, but precision work. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If I had not seen a single potato my status as vacilador would not have been affected. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The potato salad is kind of an odd combo, but it really works. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z If the wild potato seeds McCandless ate were contaminated with swainsonine from an eruption of R. leguminicola, it means the guy wasn’t quite as reckless or incompetent as he has been made out to be. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He let go of the weapon like a hot potato. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Picking a curly red hair out of her sweet potato sooflay, she dropped it daintily to the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She gazed lovingly at the potato, as if that’s what she was thanking, then hid it somewhere under her kimono before turning and leaving, walking directly toward a wooded area. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had a bedroll, some flour, some potatoes, and some biscuits already made up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My old man died one month later in the hot sun in the middle of a potato field outside Saguache, Colorado,” Joe finished quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeled potatoes for French fries quietly, her eyes always on the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t even look at me before she marched back up to the front of the room and dropped that paper on her desk like it was a hot potato. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The soup was tepid, and you were lucky if there was a limp potato floating in it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They had disposed of over half their cargo when they were stopped at the California line and their potatoes refused entrance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I roasted the bird in a pan surrounded by the potatoes and chunks of winter squash. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Fact: Companies pump the bag with nitrogen gas to prevent the chips from becoming potato crumbs, proven by my experiment in the third grade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Some people had gone back for more helpings of food—potato pie, ribs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Jule peered into the sack he held out: four Crunchie bars, Hula Hoops, Swedish Fish, two bottles of seltzer, and a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The lid of the second revealed a mound of potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We eat inside a huge tent where Brother Vu becomes head chef, heating up cans of beef and potatoes tasting like salty vomit. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There was some grumbling about seal being fit only for dogs, but the men soon got used to it, especially when it was served as a succulent roast with onions and potatoes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I carried the water to the potato patch and poured it out too fast. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was just a joke. We’re going to have potato salad and smearcase and cold chicken and apple pie and lots of other good things. We’ve been cooking ever since your father called.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits at the table made of planks left over from the loggers, eating fried Spam and potatoes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And then they were spilling off the end like potatoes dumped from a sack. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I squealed and dropped the bowl of potatoes I was mashing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” I said, mortified as she leaned down to scoop up the scatter of potato peels and marrow bones that had fallen from her sack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Upon further analysis, another geologist concluded that it might be possible to “age” the surface of a dolomite marble statue in a couple of months using potato mold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We’re having salmon that he baked in the oven, with a side of potatoes and broccoli. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He poked his fork into his potatoes, now gone cold and congealed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Ill Santa Battaglia tasted a spoonful of the potato salad, cleaned the spoon with her tongue, and placed the spoon neatly on a paper napkin next to the plate of salad. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing better than to dredge a hunk of hot biscuit through chowder thick with clams and potatoes. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Our potato tikkis have browned beautifully on both sides, sizzling with the aroma of cilantro and olive oil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I would follow along planting corn or potatoes in the furrows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, Bertha made a special supper of meat loaf and lima beans, fried green tomatoes, and sweet potato pie. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You need to go back to college, sweetie potato. You’re so smart.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He was also dressed as a giant potato. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “You can’t just toss him in there like a sack of potatoes,” I said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The potato plant grows about two feet high, but there are no potatoes on it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, trying to cram Butler’s head into the original helmet would be like trying to fit a potato into a thimble. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I crouched down, letting go of the potatoes and other items I had been carrying. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Ivanito told her that they didn’t get such good food at his boarding school, that it’s always chicken with rice or potatoes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I smother my green beans with mashed potatoes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He weighed hardly more than a large sack of potatoes or a full butter churn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a pretty dream,” said Jule, popping a potato chip into her mouth. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They’re full of women and kids preparing vegetables, frying potatoes and chopping cucumbers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Mam peels our potatoes but Dad eats his skin and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her arms were full of potatoes as she hurried back out of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There was roasted lamb, new potatoes, peas with leeks and fennel; a rich and almost maddeningly delicious bottle of Château Latour. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had begun to gather and eat large quantities of wild potato seeds on July 14, during an extended period of rainy weather. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Wondrous aromas of potatoes, onions, smoked meat, and spices mixed to warm our faces and tease our nostrils. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It looks like there are hamburgers, veggie burgers, sweet potato fries, and cookies. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She passed her family’s tiny home: sturdy wood and stone with a half-tidy garden of potatoes, radishes, and leeks around the front and left side. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z One afternoon the tenant came to Ryves’s house to borrow a shovel, explaining that he wanted to dig a hole in the cellar for the storage of potatoes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These potato chips were so good, he had to hold himself back from grabbing them by the handful. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Thank goodness. Dig in, guys. I got fried chicken for you, Jake. Salad for Emma. Rotisserie chicken for me. And mashed potatoes for everybody!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Fried chicken and boiled ham, baked sweet potatoes, peach pickles, big buttermilk biscuits, cookies, cakes, apples, boiled eggs, I don’t know what all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Have some more asparagus, Mrs. de Winter, and another potato?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I investigate the sacks from Mrs. Krawiecka, and there are four kilos of beans, four kilos of flour, kasha, butter, salt, a sack of potatoes, and two cabbages. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Still passing out mashed potatoes, blankets, and goody bags.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It’s enough to tell you that we’ve divided many things like meat and fats and oils and are frying, our own potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Potatoes grow continually, so in those 76 days, I can grow another 22,000 calories of potatoes, which will tide me over for another 15 days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa packed a sweet potato, a pepper, and two tomatoes in his bag, all the fresh food that Rashid Uncle had. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I almost choked on a gob of mashed potatoes. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He gathered mounds of fried potatoes, canned sweet corn, and Spam with Nali’s fresh tortillas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They prepare an elaborate meal, fish and meat bought one bitterly cold morning at Chinatown and Haymarket, cooked as his father liked them best, with extra potatoes and fresh coriander leaves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ginnie Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Madam wants her outside peeling potatoes. You’re to work in here.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Jody’s mother put a platter of steaks on the table and boiled potatoes and boiled squash, which clouded the room with their steam. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline waited until he had generously salted and peppered his potatoes, then she laid her elbows on the table and propelled herself a bit closer to it and thus to him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to me, Jay swallows a spoonful of mashed potatoes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Darren glared at me the whole time, like it was my fault he threw a potato chip at me and got in trouble, and the whole other side of the lunch table glared too. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z They had sat in the backyard, had some sandwiches and potato chips; and Jessica was so nice. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Heather: “Look, you can’t eat lunch with me anymore. I’m sorry. Oh, and don’t eat those potato chips. They’ll make you break out.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I go straight to the market after the factory and buy what’s left, which is a ten-pound sack of small potatoes, some carrots, and four onions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We also control the number of butter pats our customers get and the amount of sour cream on their baked potatoes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Although mangolomera never weakens, it can be neutralized for short periods of time using the green vines from a sweet potato plant. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s like a hot potato that I’ve been holding on to for days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Come, Isabel. You need to peel the potatoes. Would Madam like some tea or coffee?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d come straight from work, still in her uniform, her apron stained with ketchup and potato soup. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “What you want, green salad or potato salad?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The potatoes were in the oven, the beans in a covered pan, the table set with forks and a platter of sliced tomatoes and glasses of water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Or at least communicate that this wasn’t her job and that he wasn’t such a useless idiot he couldn’t chop some potatoes like a normal person. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Sweet potato cheesecake and peanut butter brownies and white chocolate cookies and, of course, the delicious yellow cupcake with strawberry icing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z A sharp scent of potato salad hung in the air, bin the Ladies’ Circle had cleared away lunch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When I related this at dinner, Father said, “Calpurnia, cardinals do not eat mice. They live on vegetation. Sam Houston, please pass the potatoes.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Good,” said Albert, who had a piece of potato stuck between his teeth. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “The woman before this one,” Cordelia tells us, in a hushed, scandalized voice, “was caught stealing potatoes. She put her bag down and they rolled out, all over the floor. It was so embarrassing.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z So she keeps the marchers' glasses filled, adds more corn bread and potato salad to their plates, stands in the kitchen ready to slice lemon pound cake into generous pieces. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z But we cannot find a grater for the potatoes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She plopped it down, and the weight of the potatoes almost made me drop the plate. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their comers, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia visits her son the first Sunday of each month at his school in the potato fields outside San Antonio de los Banos. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried a tray of porcelain shot glasses and a small bottle of soju, clear liquor made from potatoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Would you like more zucchini, sweetie pie?” and “Did I make enough potatoes, honey bun?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z One was eating a bag of potato chips. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There were aisles of cookies, potato chips, sweet snacks, salty snacks, bags of candy, and cheese presliced into little cubes and squares. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z While the potatoes boil, Mama shows the class how to make chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry was just helping himself to a baked potato when Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and terror on his face. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A penny for a potato, a penny for a watermelon. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z But when he’s preparing potatoes, beans or vegetables, he seems to be totally absorbed in his task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Taking a cue from Kari’s book, McCandless started to dig and eat wild potato roots on June 24, apparently without ill effect. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, vanilla ice cream,” recited the Humbug, bouncing up and down quickly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the platters of fish and potatoes overlapped on the table, and the opened beer bottles stood in a row beside the tracks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z More than once, until I learned to cook, we ate potatoes raw from the bin. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They made stamps out of raw potatoes and covered the walls with symbols. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I had some hot chocolate and then ordered some eggs and potatoes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It only me, no need to help. No help! Please! Dinner simple, boiled carrot top, potato, and rice. Not much rice.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We would load up with potatoes or corn or beets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like roast beef and mashed potatoes with homemade gravy and...hmm...carrots? No. Peas. No. Carrots.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He brings home the same dinner in his overcoat pockets, a big steak dripping blood, four potatoes, an onion, a bottle of stout. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On top of the cheese put your crushed potato chips-don’t be stingy with the potato chips. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With the money we got selling the meat one afternoon, a few weeks after the government man’s visit, we bought some potatoes and some eggs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re in the middle of saying grace over pot roast and potatoes when the first gunshots ring out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water and came upon Mrs. Baylor, peeling potatoes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The boise airport boasts several “fresh” French-fried potato vending machines, spaced at intervals throughout the facility, to let visitors know that they are in the proud Home of the Spud. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoked ham, bacon, a bucket of salt mackerel, flour, cornmeal, grits, raw sweet potatoes, lard, coffee, a tin of butter, some store bread, and a can of beaten biscuits that Dunse’s mama made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I glanced over at Mother, but she was stirring circles in her mashed potatoes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I also buy a plate of mashed potatoes and gravy and a yogurt. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She asks him to get her a bag of potato chips and a cup of tea with milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Empty potato sacks and orange onion bags cover the dirt floor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “She was in the forest. A Russian cornered her. She followed me here. She has a couple potatoes. Now, leave me alone,” I said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “So, seeing you as a potato makes them happy?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I moved the potato heap so I could best lean against it and push with my legs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I think it must be the god of small potatoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad was already sitting in his spot as my mom placed meat loaf, mashed potatoes, peas, and salad on the table. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Yes, they give the battalions in the front line as much as they can but the ones in back are very short. They have eaten all the Austrians’ potatoes and chestnuts from the woods. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I had a melon under one arm and a sack of eggs and potatoes in the other hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was real dinner too—steak and potatoes and even a salad with homemade dressing, not from a bottle or anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I showed her all the delicious fat potatoes and she said, “Oh, my poor little Virginia, pobregulla, look what you brought back all by yourself.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And they didn’t want any of the thawed hamburgers or German potato salad my mother offered. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For two days, we eat cabbage and potatoes, and on the second day, there’s not much of that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s full of bears and model boats, plus Gat-like piles of books, empty bags of potato chips, cashews crushed underfoot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He drove one-handed, eating potato chips with the other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were extremely polite to each other, saying “Yes, Norma,” and “Yes, George,” and “Would you please pass the potatoes, Phoebe?” and ‘Wouldn’t your guest like another helping?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The potato was beginning to grow moist and sag. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z When her eyes open, she sighs and says, “Everything smells so good, Mrs. Hameed. It’s like chicken and mashed potatoes decided to dance a ballet with your spice cabinet. What are you making?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They had only gone a few paces when Hermione’s bandy-legged ginger cat, Crookshanks, came pelting out of the garden, bottlebrush tail held high in the air, chasing what looked like a muddy potato on legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My mother plopped some mashed potatoes on her plate. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, French fries, fried onions, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are potato samosas in here I think. I can reheat them if you want.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I was relieved we wouldn’t have to move and helped Mami peel the sweet potatoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Tigris has prepared us a hash of chopped ham and potatoes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Here he catches a potato and maneuvers it into my mouth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Inside his small cap were three large potatoes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We all looked at our cold mashed potatoes and cold pork chops. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Dallas made a deep well in his mashed potatoes and ladled in the smooth caramel-colored gravy. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Not only did potatoes grow in places where other crops could not, the plant was an ally in smallholders’ ceaseless struggle against the economic and political elite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Stan’s father had barely said hello and his mother was this really timid thing who’d passed around potato chips and acted like everything was cool. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She picked out four potatoes and a bag of apples. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The end was closed with a little piece of potato, the way you plug the spout of a kerosene can. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Big piles of nachos, cheeseburgers as wide as plates, cherry pie, potato chips, all the good stuff. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They lived mostly on these things made from stale bread, and condensed milk and coffee, onions, potatoes, and always the penny’s worth of something bought at the last minute, added for fillip. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She hurled herself down toward the potato peeler the instant he released her. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In a typical supermarket, one dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In produce, I pick out six sweet potatoes, three handfuls a string beans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z During practice sessions my sisters and I would eat potato chips, scowling at our hated instruments and speculating on the lives of our music teachers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The carpenter took apart the wheelhouse from the ship and rebuilt it at Ocean Camp for a galley, and the larger “hot potato can,” as the stove was called, was installed inside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They grow potatoes, onions, leeks, beans, and tomatoes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is steak, and there are baked potatoes tucked into foil sleeping bags. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The newspapers tell you what you can purchase: five hundred grams of sugar, two liters of milk, two kilograms of potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Mother was holding the bowl of mashed potatoes out to him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes are trained on a gull wiggling a potato chip out from the wood slat bench. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled a potato from my coat pocket and handed it to her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As he sped by, I could see that he clutched a potato in his hand. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The fruit was a little past its prime, but the potatoes, carrots, and turnips were in good shape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z All little Willy wanted to do was grow potatoes, but he respected his grandfather enough to do whatever he said. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo dug around the deserted gardens until she had found several sweet potatoes to roast. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured the potatoes and the beans into a pot and carried the pot into the diningroom and set it in the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Back when he first came, he had going this collection of potato chip bags. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Come in for the lovely leg o’ lamb and the gorgeous green peas and the floury white potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now it stored cookies, cases of wine, potato chips, root vegetables, seltzer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I peel potatoes while she gives the frozen turkey a hot bath. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He flung himself down after her, and they rolled over each other on the floor several times before he could tear the potato peeler away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I have a blanket to look forward to afterward, I hope, perhaps a tepid dish of kailketany a la guerre—that is, cabbage and potato mash without the potato and with not very much cabbage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Says right here, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries, and a roll, with a choice of sweet potato pie or pumpkin pie for dessert.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In Stamps, lettuce was used only to make a bed for potato salad or slaw, and peanuts were brought in raw from the field and roasted in the bottom of the oven on cold nights. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You take him in your fingers delicately by head and tail and nibble him from off his backbone, and finally you eat the tail, crisp as a potato chip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us were giving diligent attention to our powdered potatoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I hauled buckets of water to the potato patch, drenching the plants which looked healthiest. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time I was at the bottom of the stairs, and he examined the pan of potatoes he was still holding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They made stewed meats and boiled potatoes in the kitchen. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He’s eaten his tandoori roast chicken, but the curried peas and potatoes are piled in a lumpy hill on the side of his plate. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The only snacks are the potato rolls my mom bakes and leaves on the counter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Wash emptied the last of the potatoes into the bin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The consequence of all that ice was a wretched Thanksgiving of tiny tough birds, heavy pork cakes, and pithy sweet potatoes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We handed most of the potatoes over to the landowner in exchange for our wages, but some we boiled into soup, which we ate every night for dinner. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Real potatoes are backward for him. Remember this is our newly middle-class world. We haven’t completed the first cycle of prosperity, before going back to the beginning again, to drink milk from the cow’s udder.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She cuts bread and waves the knife at me and makes sandwiches of brawn and cold potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The dishes sit alongside Mom’s mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, and Dad’s green beans with almonds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He had a baloney sandwich, potato chips, and a large chocolate-chip cookie. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z My eyes barely registered the patchwork of corn and potato fields, or the dark hills covered in pine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Steak and potatoes,” I answered, and he looked relieved. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “It is from an American recipe for potato stew that I am making this one,” Harrison said, as he watched Richard eat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I counted the days by the sacks of potatoes that Gladys and I peeled. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was as polite as an angel all the way through the roast and potatoes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z We also had mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z When Momma saw him she invited him to stay for supper and told me to stick some sweet potatoes in the ashes to stretch the evening meal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was he? When?” said his mother, dishing up the fried potatoes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She hopped up on it, pulled a potato from the sack next to her, and started peeling with a small knife, her feet kicking in the air under the bench. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The meals are ambitious: poached fish; creamy potato gratins; golden, puffed chickens roasted with whole lemons in their cavities. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His nose was the size of a small fist and resembled a deformed potato. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was delicious, thick with rice and chunks of chicken, cubed potatoes, green olives, and capers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He filled a burlap pouch with the potato cuttings and hoisted it expertly to his thin shoulder where a batch of new freckles was just beginning to appear. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The highest body counts arose when a tribe with lots of muskets and potatoes attacked a tribe with few or none. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She ask how you unscrew a lightbulb that done broke off in the socket and I tell her a raw potato. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A plate of eggs, a couple sausages, and some fried potatoes later, I felt I could begin to think rationally about my situation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I quickly eat the mashed potatoes and drink the milk. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually when she cooked, the food had the house smelling some-kind-of-good, and they’d scheme ways to get an early spoonful of banana pudding or sneak a slice of sweet potato pie. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She sounds so hopeful that I let her, even though the potato salad has bacon in it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We’ll always give you the biggest potato of the soup, always. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bowls full of side dishes adorn the table: okra, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, greens, homemade bread. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, carrot cake, and milk for supper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normal bags of food—pasta with corn, potato salad, apple cobbler— and something else: a Sony tape recorder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinner is chicken tenders with potatoes and salad and a pear. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We got powdered eggs and cold potatoes for breakfast. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker. They all jumped out of a rotten potato,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “No, she didn’t cook it, she’s not my girlfriend, and”—I grabbed the garlic powder from the counter and sprinkled it on his potatoes—“it don’t taste better than my food.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The line came out of the water and closed in on their rear and gathered them like potatoes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the spoon, tasted the potato salad, and, cleaning the spoon with her lips, put it back on the paper napkin. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She would chop vegetables and I would peel potatoes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The junior wife came in with a bowl of boiled potatoes covered with a gray sauce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their panes glow in the starlight, obscuring the treasures I imagine to be inside them, small plants with berries dangling from their branches, rows of potato plants buried in the earth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I had some seed potatoes left; they looked pretty dried up, but I felt so optimistic and energetic I planted them anyway. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Two Sundays later I woke up early, peeled potatoes, then packed my bag. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I manage to take a piece of potato and some cornbread up to him before it gets dark. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is my potato dance, Grandfather. Look what I found. We’ll have a real supper tonight. Have you ever seen anything as beautiful as a potato?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the Nurmis were having fresh pickerel, cooked in the old-country way with the head still on and surrounded by potatoes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t want to weigh him down with too many things. Ya’ll get busy eating,” she said as she set a bowl of potato salad on the table. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It's critical to the potato farm, and I'm the only source on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can always use potato flakes. There’s a big box in the pantry,” Elizabeth jokes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He yanked on them, pulling them up by the roots, which hung heavy with potatoes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There were plates of roast beef, baked potatoes, buttered carrots, fresh bread, and a whole bunch of other foods I hadn’t had in a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Jim worked for a little while more on the potatoes, swallowed, and then noted, “My brother’s a sister.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Supper was a royal feast of boiled potatoes seasoned with a scrawny turnip and a few beans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I found a bag of stale potato chips under my bed and munched on the crumbs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As it turned out I saw almost more potatoes than I needed to see. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama calls a girl in the front to turn the onion mixture into a thick paste using a potato masher. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Babi said they were green winter wheat and alfalfa, potatoes too. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Pancakes and corn syrup, fried ham and potatoes and onions, anything you wanted and as much. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Lee came out with a platter of fried chicken, a bowl of smoking boiled potatoes, and a deep dish of pickled beets, all carried on a pastry board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She hopes he might bring home something from the farm, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, carrots, but he’ll never bring home anything because he’d never stoop so low as to ask a farmer for anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Our greengrocer buys potatoes from the “Wehrmacht” and brings them in sacks to the private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s crazy to say a bag of potato chips is too expensive. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “And I think we have just enough rainwater left. We’ll make a nice potato soup.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I kicked at an empty potato chip bag that the wind was blowing around like a leaf. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The kids play card games on the floor and eat potato chips until they get bored. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Styx ran his finger around the paper plate, licking up ketchup and potato chip flakes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She’d always thought she was better than him, just because she was a Baron, showing off with her soda and her potato chips and her fancy computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “And you and me’s going to fry up a couple pecks of potatoes to go with the fish. There won’t be nothing to it. I peeled the potatoes this morning before you two was up.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His dad on a picnic blanket in Central Park, using a key to pry open a container of potato salad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped Fadi like a hot potato and grabbed his leg. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Though not enough for meat pies. We could perhaps afford a jacket potato.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “How about some okra and mashed potatoes too, Bud?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Muff was their neighbor, and while they ate the fried chicken and mounds of potato salad and fluffy white biscuits, she talked about people that she knew, people his daddy knew, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was Shandi’s fire, and a small pot hung simmering, boiling potatoes, strangely familiar among the chaos. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’d lost track of the time, and I hurried downstairs to take the potatoes out and put the steak in to broil. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “It’s leek and potato stew with a tarragon garnish and melted Gruyere cheese,” he admitted. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z To Gorlitz it looks like “four potatoes with a suspicion of gravy and a mouthful of vegetables.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I guess so,” I said, looking down at my double serving of sweet potatoes with butter and cinnamon. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z My mouth watered at the thought of eating sweet potato, though. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “The potatoes are lumpy,” she responded, doing some tardy mashing with the tines of her fork. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z She has big bones, square teeth with litde gaps between them so that you can see each tooth distinctly, skin that looks rubbed raw as if scrubbed with a potato brush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I had to make myself put the potatoes down calmly and cover them with a cloth Sarah had left on the table. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I put away my sketchbook when Mama places the boiled potatoes on plates and passes them to everyone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Yesterday I got desperate and boiled some old potatoes and ate them with nothing but salt and pepper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Using pot holders, Jay carries a huge pot of potatoes from the kitchen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The book advises only that the roots of the wild potato are edible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent her days in the garden, tending to her roses, geraniums, potato vines, and orchids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He even sees to it that we are detailed the next two or three days to the cook-house for potato and turnip peeling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bet she puts raisins in her potato salad.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Did you know that potatoes are fed night soil so they can grow big?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A bowl of small, round, roasted red potatoes is passed around, and afterward a salad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ray’s quiet, holding on to the stroller, popping potato chips into his mouth when we come to a stop. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I grabbed a fork from the side of the table and put it in the mountain of mashed potatoes on my plate. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He stayed quiet as Rupa and Ma served lentils, rice, spinach, potatoes, and eggs. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He forks a bit of peas and mashed potatoes into his mouth. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was uncomplicated and Ben had fantasized that if a surgeon performed brain surgery on Pinkie he would open his head to find it looking like the inside of a potato. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw them into the kitchen fire, along with the mouse carcasses and rotted potatoes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I cooked a chicken and roasted potatoes and carrots. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Each eye of the potato she held had knobbly, pale growth on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashers of bacon and a heap of fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I will be forever known as “that girl who got nailed by potatoes the first day.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I can bake a chicken and boil potatoes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Liyana lay on the other twin bed, idly reciting, “One potato, two potato, three potato, four.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The same is true for magic people and sweet potatoes, I don’t know why. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t dig potatoes, and he wouldn’t rake hay: He wouldn’t take a whipping, and he wouldn’t run away.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The next thing to consider is how efficient I can be in growing potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z You scrape out the bread, then you fill it with fried potatoes, a slice of baloney, and some pickled mango relish called achar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The fabric is hideous, like the burlap bag potatoes come in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Since I felt like spoiling Margot on her birthday, I went to get the coffee, and after that the potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Hugh blows the yucca pollen off his blackened shrimp while I push back the sleeves of my borrowed sport coat and search the meat tower for my promised potatoes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Everything. Stuffed cabbage, potato dumplings, black currant cakes, blini with lemon zest. I can’t wait to see Zoya’s face when I come walking into the Little Palace.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She had always pictured a troupe of burly men with long black moustaches who would tumble her into a blanket and bear her off like a sack of potatoes while she pleaded for mercy. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She bought a large container of beet soup, a green salad, sauerkraut, roasted potatoes, and Polish sausages warm from the pan. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The potatoes followed; then, holding down the plate with his paw, the cat polished it clean. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All I ever see Biddy eat at school was potato chips and candy bars. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Breadfruit,” he said, “would be equivalent to potatoes.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I start to chop off a potato’s end as wide as a thumbnail, then decide to slice off only a sliver. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Besides cotton, the new land went to potatoes and root crops for us and some more corn to feed livestock and ourselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a couple of potato chips hit him on the back. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Family members stood in line with people who were obviously homeless and waited their turn to be served chicken, and green beans, mashed potatoes, and bread, by Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They returned with arms laden, and Dicey turned the potatoes, rinsed in rain drops, over and then arranged the chicken wings near to the edge of the fire so they wouldn’t scorch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murphy nursing me with chicken soup filled with carrots and celery and potatoes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I rolled the olives and crispy potatoes around with my fork, wondering why my family couldn’t agree on the right thing to do about Wilfrido. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Two of the carbamates are actually used to prevent sprouting of potatoes in storage — precisely because of their proven effect in stopping cell division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She cooked his favorite dish, potato shorwa, though he could scarcely eat more than a few spoonfuls, and took him out every day for a brief walk around the block. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Frypan had known Thomas would be coming late, so he’d left a plate full of roast beef and potatoes; a note announced there were cookies in the cupboard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When it’s finally time to eat, everyone gets a ladleful of bright yellow rice and potatoes in a plastic bowl. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The youngest child never gets the biggest potato, never gets served first. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked at some of the mashed potatoes—which were more delicious than I let on—but as soon as we were in the car, I begged Phil to stop at Wendy’s. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But of course there was no synagogue anymore, and no challah rolls or potatoes or chicken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The scene reminded me of my own first time in the cookhouse when I had sat peeling potatoes until Kevin called me away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mama kept an eye on both of us as we moved on to peeling sweet potatoes, then layering them in the pan. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z You deserve to grow up where you don’t worry about saving half a bite of sweet potato. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He took a spoon and swiped a bit of mashed potato. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want me to make a picnic for you next time? A turkey sandwich, a plate of potato salad, a couple of Cokes, and a big slice of apple pie? Wouldn’t be too hard...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She stands in front of her sink, her wicked paring knife in one hand, a half-peeled potato in the other. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t eat any more potato salad after that, that’s for sure.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z One afternoon the boys weren’t home and my mother asked me to throw away some potato peels and eggshells. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Wearing the sweater, I didn’t wonder how I looked, because I knew: basically like a fuzzy green potato. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It took forever before he lay down flat, and then we covered him with potatoes and onions, layer upon layer, like a casserole. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hallway is lined with boxes of recently expired crackers, salsa, and potato chips. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At the table we discussed whether there was any saltpeter in the mashed potatoes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Egg salad sandwiches, a bag of potato chips, ham sandwiches, pieces of celery stuffed with peanut butter, a bag of cookies, paper plates, paper cups, paper napkins. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She speared a steaming potato with a fork and showed me how to peel it until there wasn’t a spot on it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We could see his teeth marks on the pile of potatoes, our dinner, on a plate on the stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Both of us have messed the mashed potatoes around on our plates without actually eating much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The men ladling the soup were prisoners too, and sometimes one of them would take pity on me, stir the bottom of the pot, and put a real piece of potato into my bowl. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z For dinner we always have potatoes with imitation gravy and—thank goodness we’ve still got it—beet salad. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Poor farmers who gave sacks of potatoes or corn for treatment or medicine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A bug crawled over his leg, and he put some mashed potatoes on his knee in the bug’s path, but the bug turned and went the other way. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But my corn grew tall and golden, my potatoes were abundant. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Our table holds more food than ever—and I eat too much turkey and stuffing and sweet potatoes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Mouse had finished all of her chowder except for a cube of potato and a coin of carrot, which Miss Maggie saved for the pigs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z My stomach turned at the thought of boiled potatoes, or mashed potatoes, or potato latkes fried in schmaltz. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Would I boil a potato for her, mash it up with a lump of lard, give her a cut of bread, bring her a drop of water to go with the whiskey? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We looked out at the rest of the potato field and Papa said, “Even the potato crop is low this year.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In its wake it leaves the sort of rich volcanic plains that are ideal for growing potatoes, as Idaho’s farmers long ago discovered. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t like no chunks of potato lumping ’round in my soup.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She kept peeling potatoes and tapping her foot, as though she’d like nothing more than to run right out the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I leapt out of the sack of potatoes and went across that kitchen floor and into the Dining-Room like a streak of light, and I didn't stop running until I was underneath my grandmother's table. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I decided to ignore him, looking back down at my bowl of salted potatoes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I heard him chuckle as I went into Gladys’s room and undressed, crumpling my dress and pretty ribbons into a ball as solid and round as his stuffed potatoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His eyes on the potato said, Emilia, I’m hungry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, put a couple of potatoes in that bed of coals, and I’ll set out our plates and mugs. I think we’ll have some of Jenny’s peach preserves by way of celebration.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of it I don’t recognize, but there’s a list on the refrigerator door: stuffing, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, black-eyed peas, sweet potato pie, Haitian rice and beans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He has potato chips and sour-cream-and-onion dip on the coffee table. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, cranberry sauce—all the side dishes. I hear turkey doesn’t have a lot of flavor.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He knocked on the kitchen door and went in to find Sister Fenella scraping some potatoes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They yanked him off his feet and threw him to the ground like a sack of potatoes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z To make soup we use brown beans, navy beans, potatoes, packages of vegetable soup, packages of chicken soup and packages of bean soup. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Also, I need to make an outdoor shed for the potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It's mostly tins of meat and potato hash I stole from an airship's cafeteria, and an old pair of shoes with intact soles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Right, then I left my wallet in school and couldn’t pay for my potato wedgies. Then when I got home I banged up my ankle and found out that I flunked my English test.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They dragged themselves to the cellar, which was nothing more than a dirt room underground, built a century ago to store canned goods and potatoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And then there were us, the indfgenas, with skin as rough and ruddy as freshly dug potatoes, cheeks chapped raw by the sun and wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “He could help if he wanted. This is small potatoes for him,” I say. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of letters concerned misplaced apostrophes, of course, in potato’s and lemon’s. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Muff tossed another potato into the bowl between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That night we were temporarily happy that we had some money, and were hoping to buy some cooked rice with cassava or potato leaves for dinner. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, his mom was struggling to get the large pot of mashed potatoes off the stove. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She dug the spoon deep into the creamy potatoes and came up with a big scoop. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Captain was making tea and cooking potatoes for his supper when we arrived. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so nasty crawling around underneath that dumpster picking up tomatoes, ketchup packets,dipping-sauce containers, and half-eaten baked potatoes and chicken tenders, but it was so much fun. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z If I had more time, I would shape little goats from the dough, and children and cows and houses and potato fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sarcasm could peel the jacket off a potato. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Leek and potato was the best and when we ran out of leeks we used wild onions. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared down at my lunch, slowly chewing the potato chip. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I feel the chips against my back, and I’m thinking that a thousand bags of potato chips wouldn’t be the worst way to break a fall. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Maybe she thought they would take the potato back? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Willy lived with his grandfather on a small potato farm in Wyoming. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In many areas, they relied on just a single staple, such as wheat, potatoes or rice. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In this strange new world, one man got nothing and the next got a precious bit of potato in an otherwise-watery soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The favored word, bákala, covers quite a lot of ground, including a hot pepper, a bumpy sort of potato, and the male sexual organ. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The last row was turned and Betty said, “You want these, ma’am, in a potato salad?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I ask Justin to find some potatoes, tomatoes, half an onion, and three eggs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He's sitting alone in a window booth, making his way through a plate of meat loaf and mashed potatoes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She forced the spatula into the pan of potatoes and stabbed the dough next to it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The potatoes were old and full of black patches. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I got to cook me something and get my head a little straighten I got potatoes, carrots, garlic, and olive oil, put a knife on the counter, and set myself on the stool. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I don't say anything about the long-term health issues associated with potato consumption, which has a link to juvenile weight gain. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In a little while, the water was boiling, and they had chopped up the potatoes and turnips into one pot, and the chuck beef into another. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It’s terrible not ¡only for him, but for us as well, since he’s been supplying us with potatoes, butter and jam. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I had to fire up the stove with a bunch of kindling while Grandma and Mary Alice went to work on the potatoes and onions. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Our meals consist entirely of potatoes and imitation gravy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Gideon and I had gone to a Quaker meeting once, because they were having roast beef and sweet potatoes afterward. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Inside smelled like cigarette smoke and stale potato chips. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Our weekly lunch menu consists of brown beans, split-pea soup, potatoes with dumplings, potato kugel and, by the grace of God, turnip greens or rotten carrots, and then it’s back to brown beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z That white crinkly paper underneath my body means that I literally can't shift a muscle without making the same noise as eating potato chips. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I was asking my man Justin where you guys are going tonight,” Jeff says, mouth half full of roast beef and mashed potatoes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any belongings, just a rotten potato in my pocket that I gnawed on when no one was looking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I feel protected by her, like I can pretend to be mashed potatoes or crème brûlée or whatever I want to be if I see myself through her eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We made due with the last of my now-stale flatbread, dried meat, and the last potatoes baked on the edge of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grunting, Trey lifts up, grips, and turns me over like I’m a sack of potatoes. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She began handing Mother potatoes, beets, and other food she had stored. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Jay went to feed the chickens and get a few eggs, and Doc went to dig the vegetables out of the ground: sweet potatoes, mustard greens, onions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They were in the tipped-over pots on their hands and knees, scraping off bits of burned potato that still clung stubbornly to the vast pot bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I planted a potato seed. It was supposed to be a potato. But nobody picked it when it was time to dig potatoes. Everybody missed it.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I'll need to cut up all the potatoes from this crop to seed the rest of the field. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey, standing with her back to the room, the cool water running over her hands as she scrubbed the dirt from potatoes, heard that coldness and that finality. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I gaze into the distance at Imbabura, the mountain that towers over the potato fields and sheep pastures of my home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And its deck was already loaded up with baskets and crates heaped with corn and potatoes and cherries. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When no one commented on her going back to work, she sighed again and poked her potatoes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They ate potatoes, tomatoes, and bread for supper and passed around the carton of milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Breakfast was a single slice of bread for each person now, and lunch was maybe half a boiled potato. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I help her cook soup, chopping the potatoes and onions, just wanting to get the visit over with so I can go back to the hotel and school, places where I’m comfortable. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was small and leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like a potato. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Goes back to what I said, doesn’t it?” said Ron, who was now shoveling mashed potato into his mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I take a bigger bite out of the sandwich, and crunch on the plain potato chips like they’re the best thing ever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Baitfish below swarmed madly among the potato peels and eggshells floating on the water. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was hard work living on a potato farm, but it was also a lot of fun. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We worried over nzolo—it means dearly beloved; or a white grub used for fish bait; or a special fetish against dysentery; or little potatoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Resting on an upturned crate or school desk would be the shank of a horse or a side of dog or cat, a box of salt, a licorice stick, an onion, a potato or two. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There were several sweet potatoes, green beans, two onions, and two cucumbers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The potato slices go into a big Mason jar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are your potatoes the frozen imported ones, or do you cut and fry your potatoes?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We have sheep’s head, cabbage, floury white potatoes, and a bottle of cider because it’s Christmas. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For supper they ate whatever Mutti could afford to cook that day, usually turnips and potatoes and cabbage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She rhymed and played with her words like she played with peas, butterbeans, and mashed potatoes at the table. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The next morning, we’re all sitting together around the fire pit, waiting for the potato soup to reheat—my parents, Manuelito and Hermelinda, and some little cousins who have wandered over for breakfast. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air is damp with dinner—leftover turkey, stinky Brussels sprouts, salad, whole grain rolls and cheesy potatoes, Emma’s favorite. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I heated the big kettle of water and poured it into the galvanized tub and sat in it like a scalded potato, alone in this world, just crying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, together, they had bottled mango juice and sandwiches and plates of onions and potatoes deep-fried in graham-flour batter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cheeks flushed, and she began to gather the shreds of good potato from on top of the pile of peelings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They went with the pot roast done in the pressure cooker along with the limp carrots and the flaccid potatoes and the onions with their slippery layers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There were bananas but no plantains, potatoes but no batatas, cereal flakes but no oatmeal, bacon but no sausages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We laugh so hard I’m snorting mashed potatoes. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z For dinner that night Trotter fried chicken so crisp it would crackle when you bit it, and she beat the potatoes into creamy peaks with the electric mixer. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z That night, Bertha made grilled cheese sandwiches and potato salad for supper, and then we sat out on the porch under the orange sky streaked with gray-blue clouds. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z There was a neater way to deal with potatoes, as he knew from his mother’s example, and given a sharp knife, Malcolm could have shown the good nun, but he held his peace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The smoke from his pipe smelled like potatoes and Cora’s stomach made a noise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Large white hunks of this fish were carved out and put on to our plates, and with it we had hollandaise sauce and boiled new potatoes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smart and beautiful, with eyes that could captivate a room, and sweet potato pies that were the best in the county. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He hopped across the room in pain and threw the potato peeler out the window. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Presently Ma Costa had the frying pan going, with a couple of fat eels hissing and sputtering and the kettle on for potato powder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, carrot cake, and candy canes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother made a disapproving tsk sound with her teeth, then quartered a potato. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The meals were all watery potato soup and occasionally bread, hard and crusty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got potatoes and root vegetables in the oven,” he said in a low voice, “for those principled ones among us who don’t particularly feel like eating dead meat.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He listed all the different things his mother would put in it, like cauliflower, peas, onions, and his least favorite, turnips that masqueraded as the much more palatable potato until he bit into them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I should have been grateful for the potato soup that night. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The first to solve it gets the sweet potato plant sprouting at the window. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Autumn reached for the potato chips on my plate. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe the little potato sack on Dad’s chest could be me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter had given me the usual peanut butter and jelly sandwich, potato chips, and apple. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Fist gave him a raw potato, which he crunched up with strong white teeth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Mom pulls a bag of something called “potato shreds” out of the freezer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He apparently reasoned that if you could make fine spirits from common corn and the lowly potato, why not the princely pecan? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I wondered for a second whether kids in grade two would be tested on how to spell the plural of “potato.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It is a suburban prairie, an expanse of flat terrain once farmed for potatoes before it was planted with house upon house and little else. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Wise’s and Lay’s salt and vinegar potato chips, for instance, have a DOD of 8. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The bacon fat was crackling, along with red onions and slabs of garden potatoes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She stuck the giant pot of potatoes on the floor for me, and I worked on handling the masher with my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Luke suddenly felt doubly guilty for the potato chips he was still cramming into his mouth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I wrapped potatoes in foil and stuck them in the oven to bake, covered a steak in marinade and balanced it on top of a carton of eggs in the fridge. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mama dozed while Stella washed the dishes, swept the house and both porches, and peeled potatoes for supper. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Before long, potatoes were boiling in the pot. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z She made sure they all ate a good breakfast in the morning—usually potatoes with mushroom gravy and beet tea. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, potato chips, and Dr Peppers were served by skeletal crewmen. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Sweet potatoes and pumpkins would store for weeks or even months. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She puts miso soup in matching blue bowls and puts a California roll and a sweet potato tempura roll on a plate for me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He and Eric always looked to see if potatoes were from Idaho, one of the few manifestations of loyalty to their home state. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a stack of plates from the cabinet, then loaded each with baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and greens. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Grandma sold her sweet potato pies and her shortbread, as well as the crocheted doilies she made. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They built a fire in the stove and made tea and feasted on vegetables, fried potatoes, and canned meats, eating so much, they feared they would get sick. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The slow ceiling fan sliced the thick, frightened air into an unending spiral that spun slowly to the floor like the peeled skin of an endless potato. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma had put some okree and potatoes and dandelion greens and a big piece of Mrs. Brown’s cherry pie on the plate. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z If a boy didn't care for barbecued chicken or potato chips, people would accept it as a matter of personal taste, saying, "Oh well, I guess it takes all kinds." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He eats half a potato with its skin on and puts the other half back in the pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Back inside, she makes chicken and potato soup and speaks to me in Quichua. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a chicken—a great treat for us in those days—stuffed with oysters, boiled potatoes, corn pudding, some of Momma’s canned beans, rolls, and a hot peach cobbler. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked back to the steps and picked up her bucket of potatoes and went inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The children were fed in a haphazard fashion, a bit of com bread here, a scrap of pork there; occasionally they received a cup of milk, sometimes potatoes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When you walk across a field, keep your eyes open for a potato, a carrot, for anything edible. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z We put the healthy kind of bread in our cart, plus milk, juice, some frozen pieces of chicken, and a bag of potatoes that have brown spots on them. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The man hoeing a field of potatoes took one look at me and ran off. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Dad glances over at me and Malia, who frowns as she picks at her potatoes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She nodded, peeling the skin off each of her potatoes before eating them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He’s sick of candy bars and potato chips—something he never would’ve thought possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There would have been a kiddush after the service, with challah rolls, potatoes, chicken—my stomach growled just thinking about it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Food was scarce; days went by when we had little more than rubbery potatoes in weak broth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Scott twisted his fork into a pile of mashed potatoes. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z When I found a few potato peels, I would dry them on steam pipes running through the factory and share them with David. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The house was festive, and we were surrounded by the aroma of mincemeat and sweet potato pies cooking in the oven. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the kind of cook who would heap up your plate with such as ham hock, greens, black-eyed peas, fried fish, cabbage, sweet potatoes, grits and gravy, and combread. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrival of the sweet potato triggered a further explosion in recent centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings she went to a deli and bought a baguette and little containers of things Dev liked to eat, like pickled herring, and potato salad, and tortes of pesto and mascarpone cheese. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Well, Toomer. I’m gonna have to bake you some sweet potato pie and bring it down to you sometime this week.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A plate and bowl on the bedside table had the remains of her lunch—mashed potatoes and soup. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There were sliced bread and steak and fried potatoes and gravy and string beans and spinach and a huge piece of chocolate cake. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I thanked him, went upstairs and spent at least ten minutes searching around in the barrel for the smallest potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It tastes like a papa rellena, a crispy stuffed potato my nanny Caro made for me as a snack in Cuba. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z We took delivery of enough potatoes to fill the bin in the cellar and had no trouble buying meat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma India was preparing more stews and casseroles with less meat and lots of rice and potatoes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So after each of the lunch ladies gives me a spoonful of mashed potatoes or green beans or fish sticks, I make sure to say “Gracias.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Pri has already dug her thick hand into my bag of potato chips. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They came over the border every year for the potato harvest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She told them about the waterfront cookhouse where she’d worked chopping onions and frying potatoes for hakujin stevedores who looked right through her as if she weren’t even there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "But I had no idea what yuca was, so I made’’ —she removed the final lid—"potatoes.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z His face was dirty, and he was piling his plate high with boiled new potatoes and with what looked like cold, whole, cooked, trout. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Without thinking, Naomi had whittled a good-sized potato down to the size of a plum. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Without Mother there were no homemade pies now, no mashed potatoes, no roasts that sent good smells throughout the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes slid past empty plates, crumbled bits of cornbread, a smear of potatoes in a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then there's the park that we go to, with a paper bag filled with my mom's spiced potatoes in folded bread and bottles of juice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After we get back upstairs, the glum ambulance men drop me in my bed like a sack of potatoes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murdo gave Poppy a long purple scarf to play with and made a creamy mushroom soup with potatoes, and all day Lina stayed there, snuggled under the blanket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I thank him, and he heads back home to shoot his potato launcher, or dissect bugs, or whatever a kid like him does with his free time. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had also peeled potatoes, scrubbed pots and floors, washed windows, and hauled boxes and broken furniture. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Audrey nabbed a bag of spicy dill pickle potato chips and opened it, pushing the bag between us on the counter. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The waiter set down Dimple’s steaming, fragrant plate of cod and potatoes, garnished with halved boiled eggs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Frieda bought potato chips, and we got three Powerhouse bars for ten cents, and had a dime left. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They were served individual plates with potato and beans on them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There's fruits and crackers and cheeses and cakes and noodles and weird-looking salads and chicken and pie and potatoes and macaroni. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He threw a fistful of potato chips at her. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He watched as the guards picked Citra up and carried her, limp as a sack of potatoes, outside where, no doubt, an ambudrone was already waiting to take her to the nearest revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z That one meal never varied: hot water with a little salt or pepper, and if we were lucky, bits of potato skin and slivers of other vegetables. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After changing out of our wet clothes and having lunch, Frankie and I helped Mrs. Baxter peel some potatoes for the night’s dinner. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z When the potatoes came around, Phoebe explained that she was on a diet and could not eat starch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “If I have another jacket potato, I’ll turn into a jacket potato,” Olive whined. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Chicken legs and potatoes fried with bacon and apricot tarts—a dozen trays, a dozen platters, as much as he can eat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jethro walked on the warm clods of plowed earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped his mother carry the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather frequently came by our house with potatoes and beets and other produce from his garden to make sure his daughter and his grandchildren didn't go hungry. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I did have a pouch of dried potatoes that I kept stored by the rock, because sometimes I didn’t feel like leaving to eat with the others. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He had a nose like a black, deformed potato, eyes like a couple of fangs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The potatoes proved that all too well, as did the wood shavings, which Father collected in a bucket and brought downstairs to burn. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “If you want potato chips, you can buy potato chips. With your money. Please don't act like you're starving and homeless.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z This was the potato hole, where sweet potatoes were stored in winter to protect them from the frost. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed a piece of half-chewed potato mush out of my mouth, and it took this into its own and swallowed eagerly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter picked up the bowl of peeled potatoes and placed it on the kitchen counter. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “We’ll have to harvest potatoes without her help this year,” my mother said, and they turned away toward the fields, straw baskets in their arms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Past the com and potato fields, my house comes into view, looking small and weak against the mountains towering behind it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The puddle immediately trickled down to the attic and, as luck would have it, landed in and next to the potato barrel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z For Sunday chow we had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, carrot cake, and milk. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They all think she’s some kind of saint for bringing them potato chips and animal cookies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s perfect at any temperature, and the egg, onion, and potato fill you up after one slice. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But the next day, the demon girl was on the back porch peeling potatoes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She insists that her potato pancakes can only be made from freshly grated potatoes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z My mother heard his collapse and, in her rush to see what had happened, dropped the sizzling cast-iron skillet and potato pancakes on the floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Rice, oatmeal, dehydrated potatoes, canned roast beef, gingersnap cookies, sugar, coffee, and chocolate were some of the items packed in watertight tin containers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Through the dense trees in the forest I spied branches hiding an old potato cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “With potato salad,” says Mr. Palmer from his wheelchair. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The smell of roasted potatoes and spiced meat drifted out of the restaurant. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They had shared jokes and he’d given her free potato chips. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Eventually, they became such good friends that they even ate leftovers—beans, rice, and potatoes—from the same plate. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I went to his room after peeling potatoes and remarked on how hot it was. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “But, Vic, you do know those potatoes are already buttered, right?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Balled-up papers and potato chip wrappers and empty juice boxes fly everywhere! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Don’t you know potatoes have to be scrubbed?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa grinned and took another helping of potato salad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Back home, where the house smelled of pork chops, peas, and potatoes—his least favorite meal, but there would be one less angel at the table, and that made Clayton smile. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I stirred my potatoes around on my plate, not wanting to look at him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “You pervert,” was the last thing my sister said before she left the room, still carrying the bowl of potato chips. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “I bet you have pimples when you’re seventy years old. You’re never going to be able to eat a potato chip,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She walks her down the sidewalk by Pizza Hut, crowded with carts piled with potatoes, plantains, and avocados. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I’m about to snap back that I was busy lugging a toddler-size bag of potatoes, but I don’t. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Eventually he picked up his fork and, using one side of it, thoughtfully scraped the pepper off one of the potatoes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z With dark they built a fire against the log and ate plates of okra and beans and the last of the canned potatoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But other scenarios involve potato seeds of an entirely different variety, and these scenarios are more plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And the sweet potato that I boiled was supposed to be for sweet potato pie. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Tidings put the potatoes on the table, arched an eyebrow at me, and sat between Peach and Mama on the other side of the table. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Moms hooks up these huge pots of pasta with meat sauce, or she’ll scramble eggs with potatoes and chorizo, like my grams showed her, roll everything in flour tortillas. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Before I made it a potato farm, its original purpose was to be a lifeboat for the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After, we bought potato pakoras at the roadside cart in town, hoping no one would ask why we weren’t in school. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Although the windows were rolled down, the smell of fried chicken and sweet potato pie lay unmoving, and there wasn’t enough room to stretch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben ate both the turkey legs, and Mouse ate an entire plate of mashed potatoes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Within about two decades following their introduction to the northern end of New Zealand, muskets and potatoes had spread 900 miles to the southern end of New Zealand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Naomi set a plate of cold fried chicken and potato salad on the floor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smeath turns and looks at me, a skinless potato in her left hand, the knife in her right. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A lump of potatoes and gravy hits me square in the center of my chest. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I offer Jaimito another spoonful of mashed potatoes, eyeing their plates heaped with rice and meat and rolls, this fancy food I’ve spent my life craving. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I burrowed down in among the dirty potatoes and held my breath. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I made us a good dinner of pork chops that was grilled with special sauce and potatoes cut thin and sauteed in butter and fresh green beans. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was bubbling with a meat stew chock-full of carrots and onions and beans and potatoes in a thick brown broth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It rains so hard that my brothers are not able to go up the mountain to dig for potatoes and bamboo. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z His break came in 80 bc, when he took on a hot potato of a case that had been turned down by bigger names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The second potato melts in my mouth and I’ll have to try another bit of cabbage, another morsel of bacon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I did not believe the potato story and I continued to insist that murogo was filth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The assortment of soups consisted of cassava leaves, potato leaves, okra, and so forth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I saw mountains of potatoes—oceans—more potatoes than you would think the world’s population could consume in a hundred years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I used my small cookpot to make a stew with the leftover pork from lunch, some carrots and potatoes, and the onions I’d found. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “By golly, they are; and so are potatoes, sort of. Fish?” pondered Matt, “I suppose there are lots of fish around here.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I get mad and throw a hot potato fit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The pastry covering offers muted flavor before the spiced potatoes explode in taste, tangy and hot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I drag myself into a state of relative alertness, eat a can of potato and bean stew, and sit against the wall facing the door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Cecilia moved round behind Betty to see what everyone else could see—a huge blackened tray recently pulled from the oven bearing a quantity of roast potatoes that still sizzled mildly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mother and I shuffled around the shared kitchen making a beef and potato casserole, which we brought into the room on trays. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lying on a mattress gave him a weird feeling of slowly rising on a scoop of mashed potatoes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because, by God, I am sick of potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She sprays my arm with potato chip crumbs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She bought preroasted chickens from the supermarket and served them with potato salad prepared who knew when, sold in little plastic containers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The stew was made out of dandelion greens and a couple of potatoes and some small wild carrots and some crawdads and a couple of little chunks of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z For normal potato farmers, it's not worth doing because they're working with literally millions of potato plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I get one of the bags we used to move from Mickiewicza, which is really an old potato sack, and stuff a blanket inside it, along with my hairbrush and Helena’s doll. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Our dinner consists of salmon and salad, with wild blackberries and roasted fingerling potatoes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She sat there primly, slipping a forkful of potato into her mouth, then chewing it with a really superior look on her face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Soup ingredients were whatever had been scrounged up: turnips, potatoes, beets, spinach. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z We had baked chicken, carrots, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, and rolls for lunch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a smell like a cut potato from all the land, raw and cold and white from having the moon on it most of the night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Tariq reached to sample a morsel of veal cooked with potatoes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As soon as she got started peeling potatoes, she always had an itch that she couldn’t scratch without getting starch all over. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z No pork, either—no pork chops with potato salad, no bacon and eggs, forget all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, help me with the potato peels. Put them all in the dustbin, and when Mummy Ola comes back, we will tell her you helped with the cooking.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I push the meat from one side of my plate to the other, through the sweet potatoes and back again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can peel these potatoes for me,” she said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “How ya like that?” as they did the splits, the camel walk, and the mashed potato. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Straight off, Joe caught a chain across his face and dropped like a sack of potatoes—for a second he blacked out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone eating and laughing at how fast we were eating and eating even faster, mashed potatoes flying, Lucas belching, and Christopher belching, and me belching, and my father belching. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The meal would also include potatoes and a vegetable. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While I'm away, the Hab can take care of itself, but the potatoes are an issue. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not financially able to abandon their potatoes, so they cheerfully set up camp right on the state line, where they ate potatoes, sold potatoes, bartered potatoes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She had candy and potato chips, a bottle of soda and a large water. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She doesn’t steal—it’s leftovers from lunch, mostly little bags of potato chips or animal cookies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When I was done with the potatoes, I peeked my head through the swinging doors of the kitchen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Finally, Captain Nips began spearing boiled potatoes, and Betsy returned with Petunia. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z My stomach was flipping, and I just knew that my french fries were gonna come out as mashed potatoes all over the place. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing—soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there’s never enough of it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She asked the vendor how much the potatoes cost, but he did not hear her, I think he had a deaf ear. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Three fellows put on thick gloves to protect their fingers against the grater, two others peel the potatoes, and the business gets going. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When I came home from work there was a potato peeler in the kitchen drawer, and a tablecloth on the table, and chicken curry made with fresh garlic and ginger on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I don’t remember her ever yelling before; she always seemed as soft and mushy as overcooked potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried her back over his shoulder, like a sack of potatoes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It came topped with a mound of canned vegetables: peas, corn, carrot coins, potatoes, and diced turnips. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And Olive’s face was as blank as a peeled potato. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Kasim says, “Dray’s mom makes the meanest sweet potato pie, right, Donna?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We planted potatoes for spring, even though no one wanted to believe we might still be in Siberia when the cold broke. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But soon the potatoes and the chicken and the carrots had all tasted the same to her, blanched and waxen and gray. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Fingers burning, I stripped the hot skin off potatoes in silence, swallowing hurt and resentment with the same outward resignation that Gladys manifested. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Calder and Petra sat on a long bench on the first floor in Delia Dell, sharing blue ones and a bag of potato chips. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Ham and green beans and mashed potatoes with biscuits and gravy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When I catch her, I potato sack her back to the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I had stopped on my way from the airport at a nearby supermarket and purchased some turkey, potato salad, macaroni salad, and bagels. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The big, raw-faced outlaw grabbed Prince Brat off the ground and took the heft of him as if he were weighing a sack of potatoes. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “How about I make you a potato salad sandwich?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Might as well finish up these cold potatoes. Can you eat any more, Reg?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The neighborhood experienced a dramatic population influx in the 1840s, when the Irish potato famine led to a great migration to America, as tens of thousands of Irish immigrants landed in Boston. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nana packed me a ham sandwich on white bread, a bag of plain potato chips, a peanut butter granola bar, and a fruit punch juice box. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Bruto!” she howled at him in hysterical fury as he bent her arm up around behind her back and twisted gradually until the potato peeler dropped from her grasp. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They sat down at the Gryfhndor table and helped themselves to lamb chops and potatoes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The seat across from her is free, so I slide in with my bought lunch—crispy dog and potato wedges with orange slices. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Tales of them tying their victims in potato sacks and throwing them in the river and stories of their torture chambers frequently circulate among the villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Turkey, mashed potatoes, greens, stuffing, cranberries, corn, biscuits, pies and cakes, and a special tea she made to go with it all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The earth had yielded richly: there were, besides, beans and potatoes, melons and chillies, and I was well pleased with them and with the silver coins I had received in exchange. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me? Drive through Red Witch Bridge? No, I’m brave as soggy potato salad.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z At the camps, the children attended classes and did fieldwork such as picking berries and digging turnips and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Over the last few days, I cooked all the potatoes with the Hab's microwave. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother paid the woman for a single potato, then again for the privilege to boil the potato. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Peach took a bite of mashed potatoes instead of meat loaf, chewed thoughtfully, and then swallowed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If Howard stayed for supper, he and I would eat pork and beans or potato chips or a bologna sandwich in front of the TV and nobody would say the blessing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When I went downstairs, Mother said she needed more potatoes, this time for dinner, so I volunteered to go back up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Nali quietly stared at the small amount of potatoes and Spam on her plate. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We placed little filets with crispy onions on platters and scooped blue cheese mashed potatoes into serving bowls. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Candy, Royal Crown Cola, potato chips, comic books, and magazines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Rob piled eight pieces of com on the cob, a mountain of mashed potatoes, eighteen chicken wings, and three pieces of cheesecake on his plate. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, guys. Does one of you want to get me a bag of potato chips or pretzels from the bar inside?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was a piece of warm sweet potato pie with some white fluffy stuff called whipped cream swopped all over the top of it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I shook my favorite shirt, causing kitty litter and potato chip crumbs to shoot off in multiple directions. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Francis thus never had reason to envy those college fellows whose High Table food was undeniably better than their wives’ drab mixtures of tasteless meat, boiled potatoes, colorless greens, and typical trifles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “So it became candy. That’s what happens when a potato stays in the ground too long. Did you know that?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Rachel stiffened in her arms, but Mrs. Bedlow dropped her paring knife into the bowl of peeled potatoes, wiped her hands on her apron, and put a kettle on to boil. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Neither one of us had eaten breakfast, so we inhaled the salad sandwiches and potato chips Grampa ordered. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The lunches at school lately had mostly been canned vegetables and potatoes, but food was food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She popped a piece of the burned potato scraping into her mouth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and- onion potato chips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My mother says: When Mama tried to teach me to make collards and potato salad I didn't want to learn. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Ma slipped piping hot baked potatoes into their pockets to keep their fingers warm, and Aunt Eliza’s flatirons were hot on the stove, ready to put at their feet in the sled. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, just potato chips,” she said, and turned the page. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The minibar in Jule’s room stocked potato chips and four different chocolate bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The maitre d’ pulled sacks of potatoes and onions out of the service elevator and climbed in himself. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was steaming hot, and we enjoyed the string beans and white potatoes in the beef stew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t want ice cream. I want potato chips.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamita serves me first, giving me the biggest piece of chicken and the biggest potato from the soup, what I yearned for so much as a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes down the hall and brings back a pot of mashed potatoes for all of us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I watch the cartoon character grow from a potato head to a porcupine head to a Dad head. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of mashed potato and hot dog were flying everywhere. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rupa! Go pump more water and peel the potatoes. And don’t scold your brother—I’m sure he’ll start studying harder than ever now.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He split open a pair of plump potatoes. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Pheasant with a selection of jewel-colored jellies, and tiny versions of real vegetables swimming in butter, and potatoes mashed with parsley. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A bite of turkey with mashed potato and gravy and dressing. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Portia stopped peeling her potatoes and her long, brown fingers tapped on the table in time to her words. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Lunch was a bowl of steaming-hot potato soup, beans, narrow rashers of fatty bacon, and fresh brown bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The dinner is sublime: We start with oyster bisque and follow with prime rib, boiled potatoes, and asparagus in cream. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “It’s a new kind of potato peeler. Takes off just the skin. It’s easy. I got it for Lee.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had 400 plants, probably averaging 5 potatoes each; 2000 taters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The choicest potatoes, the tastiest morsel, the tenderest bit of whatever there is, that’s Madame’s motto. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When the fall came, and the garden didn’t need them so much anymore, she taught him how to make pierogi, to fill the purses of dough with potato and onion and pinch them closed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Buy a pound of potatoes on your way home.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We get Canadian wine in gallon jugs, Styrofoam cups to serve it in, pretzels and potato chips, hunks of cheddar cheese wrapped in plastic film, Ritz crackers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Joe had piled his plate high with meat loaf and potatoes and creamed corn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I cut off a piece of pork, dunk it in mashed potatoes, and start eating. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I walk around the sparkling fountain slowly, taking my time, wandering through the crowds, past the people lined up to buy warm popcorn and steaming potato tortillas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a grape arbor, beds of asparagus, lettuce, tomatoes, and potatoes, as well as fruit trees and a field with corn and soybeans. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The potatoes under me shifted and the mug of water overturned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat there with his arms crossed until Estella made him boiled carrots and fried potatoes with bacon. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I went to my cousins’ house for the holidays, my mom would drop me off with a bag of tomatoes, onions, and potatoes and a large sack of cornmeal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Then he flings me over his shoulder like a potato sack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Both Miss Trotter and Ma Charles called any meat roasting in an outdoor fire “barbecue,” when barbecue to us was sauce from the grocery store or sweet and spicy red dust on potato chips. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Mashed potato,” she said, as Sitti carefully tasted it, and smiled. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Bubbe usually takes over our kitchen and cooks turkey, chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, two types of pie, and Jewish apple cake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Planning to visit relatives in California, they took a truckload of potatoes to sell along the way to help pay expenses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I sneak down the hallway, past the boy resentfully picking up his potato chips, and take the elevator up to the fifth floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z We eat our potatoes with plenty of salt and I eat my fat and pretend it’s that nipple of red meat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Everything they ate was what my father would call “side dishes”: potatoes, zucchini, bean salad, and a mystery casserole that I could not identify. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And even though it didn’t hurt, because it was just a potato chip, I knew that that definitely wasn’t nice. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z How could she sleep on the ground in a dress, climb in and out of a potato hole in long skirts? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z First, Jack and Moniek were ordered to report to a storage room next to the kitchen to peel potatoes for the guards’ soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Back at the house, at lunch, things got worse when Mamita was about to serve the purple potato soup. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She shovels a spoonful of mashed potatoes into her mouth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Add to that rotten potatoes, and you have a meal fit for a king! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “We’re also having mashed potatoes, fruit salad, coleslaw, and carrot and celery sticks. I am sure you’ll find something to eat,” Gay replied. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was sitting outside his restaurant, peeling potatoes to make potato salad. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the table purty, and when the potatoes ready, I finish the soup and call the hogs to the trough. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They grabbed a six-pack of lite beer, then got bogged down in the instant potato section. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our gray matter is still, like, ten percent mashed potatoes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “I guess it’s more potatoes,” I muttered, glancing at the sack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His mom made him get roasted chicken and a plain baked potato. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Now the potatoes and carrots, the beets and turnips and cabbages were gathered and stored in the cellar, for freezing nights had come. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We could see them in the moonlight, eating the ham and those raw sweet potatoes, breaking open cans, scattering coffee and meal—having just the best time you ever saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Endive with sand, endive without sand, endive with mashed potatoes, endive—and—mashed potato casserole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They had turkey with stuffing, and mashed potatoes swimming with dill and butter. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z While the potatoes are cooking, I mix eggs, tomatoes, a little onion, a sprinkle of salt, and black pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She makes me drag a twenty-pound bag of potatoes to cooking class. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z If I have to eat one more plain tortilla or boiled potato, I swear I’ll cry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She stood up, the knife and potato still in her hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And mounds of earth, as if someone had been digging for potatoes or carrots, though I didn’t see anything like that growing here. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Afterward we lie on top of his sleeping bag, eating potato chips out of the bag and giggling about nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The boys ordered their lunch, plus a baked potato for Reggie and a plain burger for Freebie, who was on a potty break. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The dinner is baked ham and baked beans and baked potatoes and mashed squash. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They brought in great platters of fried cod, hash, potato balls, pumpkin mush with huge pitchers of cream, toast and butter, apple pie, and pitchers of coffee and milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Really? Well, let’s just say that’s true. What’s it got to do with you or me or the price of potatoes ?” “My father’s in jail,” I said, “for sinking that boat.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she threw the potato she had been peeling into the fire. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z What was the secret of getting the potato? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z "I don't think they grow potatoes in the desert, my friend!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We also had sweet potato fries—frozen, but deliciously salty-sweet—and a salad kit. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I did, but it was uncommon for him to say such a thing and as we sat with our backs against a mound of potatoes, I waited. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie’s as excited as me to see the salad, corn, baked chicken, mashed potatoes with tons of gravy, and soft, buttery rolls. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z However, they taste just like potatoes after you’ve been eating them a couple of weeks, and to my way of thinking are extremely good. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Grayson had a way of jumping into a subject without warning; it was during Maniac’s dessert that he abruptly said, “Them black people, they eat mashed potatoes, too?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Above ground the wild potato grows as a bushy herb, two feet tall, with stalks of delicate pink flowers reminiscent of miniature sweet-pea blossoms. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a giant snack pack of barbecue potato chips and those lemonade drinks in little boxes and a giant bag of red apples. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The string beans and potato slice were easy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Was it good to give the potato to a hungry old woman, or bad to take her little brother’s potato when she knew how much he would have enjoyed eating it? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Tillermans walked about, unnoticed, and later returned to their camp for a quick lunch of ham sandwiches and potato chips, which finished off the food in Sammy’s bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Campbell offered the Americans food now, steaks and mashed potatoes and gravy and mince pie, if they would join the Free American Corps. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were also throwing potato chips at each other. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z She'd just left the room for a minute, to get more potato chips, maybe, and soon she’d be back to lecture him again about how they both deserved a better life than hiding. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Pass him in the corridor and he is fishing potato crisps out of a bag by the fistful. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’ll be home soon, though. Why don’t we take a break from these potatoes and work on your English for a while? ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “All they know how to fix here is watery mashed potatoes and something so bad Hamburger Helper done give up on it.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She served him a plate of pork chops, butter-drenched green beans with bacon, and mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and she got out the piece of lemon cake she’d tucked up in the cupboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As Harry was helping himself to roast potatoes, the doors of the Great Hall opened again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Dad got eggs Benedict with a side of potatoes, and Mom got a veggie omelet with fresh avocado on top. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I picked her up, not in front of me, like Prince Gallant out of some storybook, but over one shoulder, the way you carry a sack of potatoes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “How to build an organic battery made of potatoes. Now, that’s cool. It says here you could power a lamp with it. We could call it the Spud Lamp or something. What do you think?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In the morning, there were three potatoes more plus a pancake. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was from early on—a jokey pose to answer his—of her peeling potatoes and pretending to smoke one of Miss Peregrine’s pipes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I run the potatoes and the cream through the blender before I add it to the white sauce in the pot,” I say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We dug through the snow and slosh for the sun to reach our little potato patch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I seriously don’t know what she saw in him, because not only was he ugly, he had the personality of a boiled potato. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I got some potatoes, leeks, cream, and a loaf of fresh French bread that been teasin’ my nose all day, charge them to Lizabeth, and head for home. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She brings Enrique a bowl of hot broth, filled with bits of meat and potatoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Can’t face her as he lies, so he pretends to skim the potato chip options. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I wondered if I should ask about the potato, or if I should wait for him to bring it up, or if maybe we shouldn’t acknowledge it at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sean helped her hill the potato plants so that they didn’t get sunburned and helped her dig up the tubers once the vines died. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Picking up a lump of mashed potato with a piece of chicken. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z That night I raided two homes on the other side but got only a few sprouting potatoes and a can of sardines. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I took the little list of ingredients he had printed out for me, and went to a grocery store, where I got a can of Red Devil lye, two eggs, and two medium-sized white potatoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My freeze-dried potatoes will add another 200 kilograms. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom returns with bags full of potatoes and onions, applesauce and sour cream, flour and jam. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The fried plantain hawker tried to persuade Ifemelu to buy fried sweet potatoes as well. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We’re nearly out of potatoes; from now on, we’re going to count them out for each person, then everyone can do what they want with them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z People all around us were fleeing to America: we heard tales of oranges the size of baking potatoes; fields of grain waving under sunny skies; clean, dry timber houses with indoor plumbing and electricity. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was mostly smoked meat, bread, and those sweet potato things. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “So, Morales,” Kevin said as they ate their cafeteria lunch of boiled potatoes and canned carrots. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “I’ll do your chores this whole week—peel the potatoes and turnips, take out the garbage, and iron the clothes.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Just a few bites,” she says, and I try the potatoes just to make her happy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z One late morning, as she was peeling and cutting potatoes for the boiled noon meal, she felt a presence behind her shoulder. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I can see that,” said Connor, and with that he spit his mouthful of mashed potatoes right in my face. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We unpacked all the stuff she brought, which really was leftover fried chicken and mashed potatoes from her grandmother’s funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And my mother and father and all of us filled our plates with mashed potatoes and green beans and a pork chop each, and Lucas and Christopher and me, we started to eat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her hands had rolled dough and chopped potatoes and milked cows and prepared slides and made things grow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Okay, this one is the one,” said August, pointing to a picture on the screen of a bunch of potatoes with wires poking out of them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “The first thing I’ll be teaching you to cook is rice with potatoes. In my language, we call it tahari. It’s very simple and quick.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She rinsed the colander of peeled potatoes and stuck it in the refrigerator. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z In my pocket is a hot potato I took from dinner to warm my hands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We bought some potato chips and ate them on the way uptown as the new day broke over Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “But I get hungry for meat and potatoes later.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron speared a roast potato on the end of his fork, glaring at it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She spins to face me, and I see a plate of seasoned drumsticks and stewed potatoes on our little kitchen table. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The former was quite good, bacon and potato soup with fresh bread and butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When Janie had finished indoors she sat down in the bam with the potatoes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Footmen arrived carrying silver trays with fried eggs, bacon, sausages and fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sorted through clothes, a medical book, the fork she had eaten the potato with, and then I pulled out something unexpected. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “We have an emergency generator,” panted the man, crawling out of the potato dirt and onion skins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z That was the last time he had tried to talk to Monique about anything more complicated than homework or shoes or mashed potatoes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My father had memories of eating potato, breadfruit, and avocado peels that he was supposed to be feeding to his mother’s pigs. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Now we can sit in shifts in the dining hall and eat a whole potato; now and then we get a little margarine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Supper was roast chicken with carrots and potatoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They are all chowing down on cardboard pizza and freeze-dried mashed potatoes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I peel the potatoes and set ’em to boil, rub a wood bowl with garlic, mix up a salad, and slice my French bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She would spill the walnut kernels, and then she wouldn’t be able to sell them to buy sowbelly and potatoes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He works every third Saturday, and his phone rings on Sundays when there is a problem with the supply of potatoes or apples. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And there he had fried chicken, julienne potatoes, hot biscuits and honey, and a piece of pineapple pie and blue cheese. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z During the days we dug up delicious fat purple potatoes, chatting and joking all the while. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered spareribs that came with corn- bread and potatoes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to these sledging rations were powdered milk and cocoa, sugar, tea, potatoes, tobacco, canned meats and vegetables, liquor, flour, and a dozen and one other staples and delicacies. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As precious as the first potatoes of the season, small and sweet like Georgia peanuts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Mansfield stared at Robin meaningfully, but Robin went on eating her stuffed potato as if she had merely stated neutral information. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He says all the nourishment of a potato is in the skin and Mam says it’s a good thing he’s not eating eggs, he’d be chewing the shells and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My best bet for making calories is potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people in Ember had potatoes at every meal—mashed, boiled, stewed, roasted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She came out and walked toward us; she wore a pair of culottes that flapped around her calves, which were lumpy like sweet potatoes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He stared at his plate, picking at his potatoes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The old man and the boy sat across from each other and dined not only on cookies, but on creamed chicken, mashed potatoes, and applesauce as well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Steam wafted from the pot’s contents—a thick, hearty stew of barley, beans, and potatoes, studded with chunks of brisket and sausage. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I moved the potato plants back in today. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And since one didn’t easily escape from his mother in the midst of planting a half-acre of potatoes, he searched hurriedly for a way to turn the con-versation. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We immerse the potatoes in pots of boiling water, then set out cilantro, green onions, and spices, plus yogurt and mint bunches for the chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Occasionally they were able to scrape out an extra bit of food for themselves and the little ones while cleaning the pots, burned pieces of potatoes that had stuck to the bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to get the potatoes today, and while I was standing on the stairway with my pan full, he asked, “What did you do during the lunch break?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Let’s go home so you can have potato peels for dinner.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Every extra bite of pork chop or boiled potato or spoonful of peas gets made into soup. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mi perrito rolls His tongue for the taste Of a dropped chicharrdn, For the jawbreaker That fell from my pocket, For a potato chip bag Blowing across a lawn. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover the potatoes with plastic wrap and heat them in the microwave. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z People loved her potato salad, chicken potpies, and most of all her BBQ spareribs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Comfort food: pot roast, green beans, and garlic mashed potatoes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Dicey wrapped the potatoes in seaweed, too, and baked them in the fire. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We took jars for water, potatoes to roast, and army blankets and hiked up Bair’s Creek one Friday afternoon to a nice little knoll at the base of the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d set one place at the table and dished up the green beans, mashed potatoes, and meatloaf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Farther inside Czechoslovakia, some of the villagers hung out of their windows to throw whatever they had to us—crusts of bread, half-eaten apples, raw potatoes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s nothing. I’m fine,” I said, pulling potato rot from my hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They are perfectly capable of recognizing useful additions to their crop larder, as is shown by their exuberant adoption of the sweet potato when it arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I had put two potatoes and the sardines on the table when I came in that night. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I knew learning to read wouldn't change the fact that Fatima was trapped here like I was, cleaning floors, dusting baseboards, and peeling potatoes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, all that sort of stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Most of the meals Thula managed to put before her children consisted of thin stews made from parsnips, rutabagas, potatoes, and chipped beef. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I have my eye on a potato chip factory a ten-minute drive from the Blue Haven, for example, or I can always search out L.L. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cellar door was outlined with daylight, and it illuminated, dimly, bushels of potatoes and apples, sacks of flour and grain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled one out and held the shriveled pale potato up to the bird’s beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I stopped on the corner where I live and bought some potato wedgies and a soda from the burger joint. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She set three cups of lentils to soak in a pot, found a knife and cut some carrots and a pair of potatoes, left them too to soak. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black in the root cellar, and it smelled of chickens, potatoes, turnips, onions, dirt, and breath. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Do you know where Connor’s been?” he asked, popping a potato chip into his mouth. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Inside, meat hung above tables heaped with onions and potatoes—a bonanza for his taking. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I better go, since, you know, I’m not a weirdo who hangs around in a potato after school.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On Otterwill Street, a man pulled a cart filled with sacks of potatoes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They ate without speaking, first wolfing it down, then savoring each bite, chewing on the narrow bones, eating every scrap of potato. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I would slide right over the reporter’s question to drop into his lap a logical-extension hot potato for him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The other stuff on my plate was candied sweet potatoes, string beans, and something I didn’t recognize, little brown clumps. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Ali had served dinner earlier—potatoes and curried cauliflower over rice—and had retired for the night with Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He puts on his potato-peeling face, and when it’s set in that particular way, it would be impossible for him to turn out anything less than a perfectly peeled potato. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Fried chicken, boiled potatoes, and frozen green peas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Three bowls of snacks—Cheetos, potato chips, and pretzels—were set on top. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z We’d have to watch the Meehans and everyone else parading around in their new clothes and staggering home with eggs and potatoes and sausages for Sunday and sailing off to the films on Saturday night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z No, if I had to eat another potato today, I’d turn into one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The day before yesterday Jan ate carrots with green peas, yesterday he had the leftovers, today she’s cooking marrowfat peas, and tomorrow she’s planning to mash the remaining carrots with potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Plus, there was a choice of buttered carrots, lima beans, french-fried onions, and potatoes au gratin. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Dr. Philobosian spotted a refugee picking through chicken bones and potato peels in a heap of garbage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Between my creamed potatoes and my miniature Yorkshire puds I created a Mediterranean of gravy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The string beans obviously came from a can but someone had thrown in some slivered almonds; the sweet potatoes had marshmallows mixed in, and there was enough stuffing for everybody. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He found a bit of potato, chewed it carefully, swallowed it, and walked back to bed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I glance at Mr. Byrne, who is studiously buttering a baked potato. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to coals, Dicey spread the potatoes out on the grate. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he did, I shook inside but let my fingers fly over the potatoes, stripping off every centimeter of skin until they were clean, yellow, and unblemished. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The same ones she’s always doing out of mashed potatoes or Dad’s shaving cream or whatever when she thinks no one’s looking. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Botany? As in plants? What are you going to be, a potato farmer?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “But I wish it grew more potatoes. You know when we came here we found fields of potatoes the Aus-trians had planted.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t know why, but after a day of the pickle, the bread and potatoes tasted good again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched as she boiled two potatoes and gnawed on a stump of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She began to leave a piece of potato or onion under their noses at night. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I’m starving and the stew is so delicious — beef, potatoes, turnips, and onions in a thick gravy—that I have to force myself to slow down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Francie found that a raw potato tasted just as good and this she could have for free. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay flat as I could on the bumpy mound of potatoes and kicked once at the boards of the bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “There, there, dear, it’s all right. No harm done. You come to help me with these potatoes?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A can of spinach, two cans of green beans, a box of rice and another of instant mashed potatoes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, cranberry nut salad, corn pudding, gravy, cheese bread, and not one but two kinds of stuffing. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z "It's just spinach and potatoes with the skin." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Henry ordered an enormous dinner—pea soup, roast beef, a salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, coffee, pie—and ate it silently and with a great deal of methodical relish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gladys and I rose early to peel potatoes, then we sat for hours in the front porch playing jacks or jumping rope to made-up rhymes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “And God bless Allah for the mashed potatoes!” said Katz happily and reached for the bowl for the third time. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She served mashed potatoes with butter in pools on the top, and green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman was softly beautiful, translucent from having eaten potatoes for so long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Using gestures, I bought a whole roasted chicken and something like thick potato chips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the garden I pulled up the potato plants and left the weeds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s a samosa, with the crispy soft potato filling, and it’s a bit spicy and tastes even better than the first time. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “For the stuffed potato balls. Papito is famous around here for them.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Bertha hollered, bending over to peer into her oven at a rib roast and some baked potatoes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma said, “Sister, go bring the long fork to take the potatoes out.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She was using a rubber spatula to scoop mashed potatoes out of a pot that Tidings held upside down over a bowl. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He reaches for the cooler and pulls out sandwiches, a bag of potato chips, and a couple of pops. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Agricultural societies are ravaged by famine when drought, fire or earthquake devastates the annual rice or potato crop. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed her—mashed potatoes in one hand, pre-packed dinner rolls in the other—into the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “So let’s go on to the street fair and eat some potato salad or whatever else they got,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk out with only a bag of potato chips, juice, lip gloss, and gloves. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The best part was that we could each gather a free sackful of potatoes to take home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam boils the potatoes and fries the steak with sliced onion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Rachel was mad that day she got to flapping her gums because Auntie Aggie had set her to peeling potatoes, a task that she thought was beneath her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There are times when they return with very little and each person is given only one small potato per day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a simple one-story house with a small cellar used to store coal for cooking and heating, and potatoes, the main staple of their diet. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the meat into the oil, added a few more sticks to his fire to get a raging boil, then threw in a handful of sliced potatoes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He leaned over it and grabbed a handful of potato plants. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And when Grover ordered a fried dam plate and a Salisbury steak, just for fun, Ralph ordered a list of side dishes — onion rings, potato salad, coleslaw. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z My list included lemonade cupcakes—inspired by Grandma’s tea—and a sweet and savory cupcake that included potato chips. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z After waking up, I have a potato for breakfast. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My father ladles out the stuffing, deals the slices of dark and light; my mother adds the mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce and asks Mr. Banerji, enunciating carefully, whether they have turkeys in his country. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Enos says it’s a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She says ’twould break your heart to think of what the English did to us, that if they didn’t put the blight on the potato they didn’t do much to take it off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Knife sullenly peeled potatoes while Fist watched the scene uneasily. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I dropped a potato through the open back window of the orphanage and returned to the room, stumbling over sleeping bodies on the stairway. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I now have four hundred healthy potato plants, each one making lots of calorie-filled taters for my dining enjoyment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their backpacks hang off them like potato sacks, all lumpy and jouncing on the backs of their knees. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The punching man lets go and Bad Leg falls to the ground—his body like an empty potato sack. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Then she wandered over to the fruit and vegetable counter and discovered potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In England this latter practice developed about 1951 as a result of a shortage of sulfuric acid, formerly used to burn off the potato vines. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z |
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