cottage fries

Cottage fries are supposedly so named because each one looks like a shingle on the roof of a cottage.

It should be noted that cottage fries are excellent for scooping up piles of tartare or finely minced salads, and that their surface area makes for satisfying salt to potato.

It should also be noted that if you invited me over to a New Year's Eve party and served me cottage fries topped with crème fraîche and caviar, I would talk about it with great excitement every day for the rest of my life.

Lawson and Granger add vanilla extract to their batter and River Cottage fries the fruit with orange zest, all ingredients that pair brilliantly with both pears and chocolate, if you feel the need to add something else to the mix.

I’d never had lobster or cottage fries before, or had a white man play the piano just to make my meal go down easy.