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I’ve been a little obsessed with mashed potatoes of late, sad as it may sound. I’m not sure exactly why I’ve wanted to include them in every meal I’ve cooked this week, but it gives me a neat little excuse to talk about the names of varieties of potatoes. A true potato enthusiastic (too much?) will know that some varieties of potatoes lend themselves well to roasting, some to boiling and others to mashing.
That is, in effect, my strenuous introduction to my post on names of potato varieties. Quite a few of the names on this list will be familiar to you, whilst others are a bit more out there. Either way, it’s a fun little list of names to kick off the weekend.
Amora
Anna
Annabelle
Anya
Belle
Blue
Bonnie
Brooke
Cara
Catriona
Celine
Charlotte
Claire
Cosmos
Daisy
Desiree
Edward
Elisabeth
Emma
Fianna
Fontane
Gemson
Gervioline
Gwyn
Harmony
Hermes
Karlena
Kestrel
Kikko
Linton
Lulu
Malin
Marfola
Maris
Maxine
Melody
Merlin
Milton
Mira
Mimi
Nadine
Navan
Newton
Nicola
Nieta
Olympia
Orla
Piper
Pixie
Primura
Romano
Rubesse
Rudolph
Saphire
Savanna
Saxon
Sebastian
Shannon
Shona
Sierra
Sofia
Stroma
Sylvana
Tabitha
Trixie
Una
Vales
Vanessa
Verity
Victoria
Virgo
Wilja
Winston
Mer de Noms 
Gosh you know more about potatoes than I do … what a lot of varieties there are. Quite a few have names of people I know.
Funnily enough (as you would already know) there is a French dish called Anna Potatoes (Pommes Anna), so my name seems very spuddy indeed.
We don’t seem to have NEARLY so many varieties as the UK, but we do have the Ruby-Lou, which is a cute name for person or potato.
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