Spoonbread's potato salad from The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Tenth Anniversary Edition: The Recipes of Record (page 292) by Amanda Hesser

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  • jenburkholder on October 12, 2025

    I did it similar to taste24 by adding the mix-ins a while before serving. I used gold potatoes. I thought this was fine, not amazing, but a solid version of a basic potato salad. Not, to me, the perfect potato salad though!

  • taste24 on April 07, 2021

    This is the perfect potato salad. Acidic, creamy, crunchy, tender. I loved the method of mixing the warm potatoes with oil, vinegar, salt, and paprika. I used red potatoes and also added the onion, celery, egg, mayo, and mustard a few hours before serving (not immediately before, as written).

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