potatophile

See also: potato-phile

English

Alternative forms

• potato-phile

Etymology

From potato +‎ -phile.

Noun

potatophile (plural potatophiles)

1. (rare) A lover of potatoes.
   • 1928 January 25, “Potatophile”, “More about Potatoes”, in The Border Cities Star, volume 19, number 122, Windsor, Ont., page seven, column 6:

     DEAR Home Lover: In response to a request published in your column last week, signed “Irish,” I am sending you one of my favorite potato recipes. […] POTATOPHILE.

   • 1940 February 28, “Miscellany”, in “Lucio”, editor, The Manchester Guardian, number 29,152, section “A Bas Les Spuds!”, page 4, column 7:

     Germany lost the last war on potatoes. Are we going to try to win this one on the same faithless vegetable (asks a correspondent)? There are some signs that potatophiles expect us to.

   • 1958 September 11, “Egg Potato Pie Recipe May Entice Potatophile”, in Central News-Herald, volume LXXVIII, number 4033, Perkasie, Pa., section three, page 3, column 4:

     A small blonde girl in a striped knit skirt visited the egg trailer exhibit on East Market Street in York and announced: “But I like potatoes better than eggs!” Startled representatives of the State Department of Agriculture which is sponsoring the exhibit tried to explain to the young potatophile the virtues of Pennsylvania Certified Eggs, but without success.

   • 1964, Food Processing Industry, IPC Consumer Industries Press, page 3:

     […] is it necessary to distinguish between the potatophile’s expenditure […]

   • 1965, Sonya Richmond, “Germany”, in International Vegetarian Cookery, New York, N.Y.: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., published 1972 (fourth printing), →ISBN, →LCCN, section “Hot Potato Salad”, page 76:

     The German people are fond of potato salad and this one, served hot, was new to me. I give it to you by permission of my dear friend and fellow potatophile, Hilde Grumer.

   • 1977, Marx W. Wartofsky, quoting Ludwig Feuerbach, “The Critique of Hegelian Philosophy: Part I”, in Feuerbach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     How idiotic it would be, if a Gastrologist, who classified all people according to the food they ate, were to define a grown man as a potatophile, or a herringophile, according to the favorite dish of one’s childhood, or youth.

   • 1978 April 11, Colman Andrews, “A Guide to the Best Potatoes in the Southland: Super Spuds”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XCVII, Los Angeles, Calif., page eight, column 3:

     With the help of a dedicated cadre of potatophile friends, I’ve recently been sampling old Solanum tuberosum in various forms of preparation, in restaurants of all kinds throughout Los Angeles and vicinity.

   • 1981 September 30, Marilynn Marter, “Scrubbing up a new image for potatoes”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 305, number 92, page 1-E, column 1:

     “The potato has been influential in making and breaking populations,” says Thomas Hughes, a native Philadelphian who has become perhaps the world’s reigning potatophile as founder and curator of the Potato Museum in Maransart, Belgium.