Caspar Plautz

Recipes with potatoes

This beautifully designed recipe book sings the praises of the potato in all its variety and beauty, reminding us how much life and happiness can be found in good potatoes. Think of grandma's succulent potato salad, mom's crispy Reiberdatschi, or the taste of slightly too salty fries at the outdoor pool. Earth apple, grumbiere, farmer's truffle, potato, bumser - the potato has as many names as it has flavors.

Hardly any food is as misjudged in its quality and variety as the potato. With their small potato stand "Caspar Plautz" on the Munich Viktualienmarkt the authors made it their business to change this circumstance. The name is programmatic: Caspar Plautz was an Austrian monk who published the first recipes with potatoes in 1621, shortly after the potato had come to Europe. This reference to the supposed past is not nostalgia, however, but refers to a sustainable approach to our food that is ecologically justifiable, culinary enriching and healthy.