The Potato Museum Blog: Potatoheads Talking

Happy Thanksgiving--Pray for Peace and Pass the Potatoes!

"May the frost never afflict your spuds.
May the leaves of your cabbage always be free from worms. May the crows never pick your haystack.
If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. "Gaelic blessing p.s. May your mashies be rich with cream and butter, may your bird be moist, may your rutabaga leave them begging for more, may your pies be so superlative as to leave you and your guests lying  around the fire praising Demeter and her handmaidens, and, above all,  may your gratitude be boundless.( Mashies from www.reluctantgourmet.com/mashed.htm)

Mr. Potato Head Soars Above New York

No Couch Potato he, Mr. P.H. was retrofitted last year as a fit and healthy runner, and in his balloon incarnation again will fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade this week. In addition, the United States Potato Board has opened a Potato Head-quarters in New York's Chelsea Market that will be offering recipes and family spud fun through Friday.

Melanie Wickham, executive secretary of New York's Empire State Potato Growers Association, will be one of 20 tuber types helping guide Mr. P.H. along the parade route.

Not appearing in the parade is an actor some in the business apparently once dubbed "Mr. Potato Head,"  Daniel Craig, the new Bond, James Bond. Frankly, we don't see the resemblance....