Nantucket Crisps: The Crispiest Potato Chips

March 14th is National Potato Chip Day and March 23rd is National Chip And Dip Day. So there’s no time like the present to introduce our Top Pick Of The Week—the crispiest* potato chip we’ve had the good fortune to encounter: Nantucket Crisps. Why “crisps?” Because they’re just too crispy to call “chips.” While every…
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FOOD FUN: Potato Chip Salad Recipe & History Of Salt & Vinegar Chips

[1] Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad (photo © Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times). [2] We used salt and vinegar potato chips from Kettle Brand (photo © Kettle Brand).   Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad at Stretch Pizza in New York City may not seem so revolutionary. It’s a green salad topped with custom-made…
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Wine Chips: Gourmet Potato Chips Crafted To Pair With Wine

[1] There’s a flavor of wine chips to pair with your favorite wine (all photos © Wine Chips). [2] There are four varieties in the Winter Edition Cheese Collection, (photo © Williams Sonoma). [3] Manchego potato chips pair with rosé, sparkling white wine, and full-bodied reds such as Tempranillo. [4] At the end of the…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: The Saucy Ladies Kettle Chips

The Saucy Ladies have created a line of deliciously crunchy, old-fashioned kettle chips. First, let’s take a minute to compare kettle chips—the original potato chips—to the modern, continuous-process chips.     WHAT ARE KETTLE CHIPS? As their name might suggest, what we now call “small batch” potato chips were originally cooked in a large kettle.…
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FOOD FUN: Heart-Shaped Potato Chips Recipe

[1] Heart-shaped potato chips tinted pink with beet juice (photo © In Erika’s Kitchen | Idaho Potato Commission). [2] Idaho® russet potatoes. Here’s more about russets (photo © Idaho Potato Commission). [3] While any size cookie cutter can cut a heart from dough, you need a cookie cutter that’s narrow enough to cut a slice…
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