When Mashed Potatoes Are the Gateway to Bigger Family Talks

I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal

Kimberly Zerkel
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6 min readJan 4, 2021

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A bowl of mashed potatoes with a spoon on it, next to some lemon slices on a marble countertop.
Photo: Sarah J. Gualtieri via Unsplash

Whether smooth as silk and ribboned with butter, a lumpy volcano erupting with brown gravy, or a glorious mess of skins, garlic, and parsley, you’d think mashed potatoes were the side-dish equivalent of a peace treaty.

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Kimberly Zerkel
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Writer for

Missouri to Paris to San Francisco. I love talking about literature, films, television, restaurants, and all things French, but mainly I just love talking.