Seven Star Potatoes to Seek Out

Gabriel Stone, 01.02.2022

Want to recreate that perfect brasserie frite or perhaps Joël Robuchon’s legendary mash? Then you’ll need a specialist potato for the job. Here are seven varieties to satisfy any keen cook.

Dusky pink and endearingly knobbly, you could be forgiven for confusing these potatoes with a Jerusalem artichoke. First bred in France during the 1850s, the pink fir apple’s awkward shape that makes harvesting and peeling so labour intensive has largely kept this variety off the supermarket shelves.

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Seven Star Potatoes to Seek Out