At Merchant Roots, one of the most immersive fine dining restaurants in San Francisco, it takes nine months and 140 big and small details to pull off just one of the restaurant’s thematic, seasonal ...

quilted disc of apple pie for dessert” – all of which “make the point about simplicity’s virtues well”. But a “dreary” leek and potato soup, a bowl of “bought-in Cumberland sausages” with potatoes ...

Now I know what you are thinking… What to serve with mashed potatoes?? Sometimes I pick up too many potatoes, make too many mashed potatoes, or there was a killer deal on potatoes. So in those cases, ...