Mashed potatoes are a quintessential comfort food with an incredible range. The soft, silky spuds are as at home plopped next to a pan-fried pork chop on a Tuesday evening as they are piled high in ...

Mashed potatoes are the epitome of comfort food: creamy, rich and endlessly adaptable. Whether they’re piled high alongside slices of your Thanksgiving turkey, spoooned on top of a shepherd's pie or ...

Whatever happened to chunky mashed potatoes? There’s a lot of hype for the silky, nearly pudding-like variety of mash—which seem to be the only kind served at restaurants these days—but for me, ...

I used to search through magazines and cookbooks every year for new recipes to try for Thanksgiving. Finally, my family staged a small revolt and asked me not to do this anymore; they looked forward ...

I was as surprised as anyone to find myself on a Saturday afternoon in October doing a mashed potato science experiment. The journey started just before Thanksgiving last year, when my sister and I ...

If you expected creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes, but ended up with a gluey or gummy mess, you're not alone. Mashed potatoes seem like one of the simplest comfort foods to prepare, but the truth is ...