Americana: Small Potatoes
For House Speaker Tip O'Neill's ancestors in Ireland, potatoes were a dietary staple, the only means of survival. The potato blight struck, and they migrated to America. So the side dish that O'Neill discovered at the fashionable Prime Rib restaurant in Washington boiled his ancestral blood: fried potato peels at $2.50 a portion. "Two-fifty!" he exclaimed. "And there's no potato!"
Most Popular »
- America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit
- Jenny Sanford: The Savviest Spurned Woman in History
- How to Rule India: Break It Into More Pieces?
- Corliss Appraises Avatar: A World of Wonder
- A Mounting Suicide Rate Prompts an Army Response
- Israel vs. Hizballah: Drumbeats of War
- Obama vs. the Banks: The Pressure Intensifies
- Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power
- The Top 10 FAILs of 2009
- The Berlusconi Attack: Will Italy's Leader Gain Sympathy?
- America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit
- Jenny Sanford: The Savviest Spurned Woman in History
- A Mounting Suicide Rate Prompts an Army Response
- How to Rule India: Break It Into More Pieces?
- Facebook's Secret Code
- Obama vs. the Banks: The Pressure Intensifies
- Should Anthropologists Go to War?
- Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power
- Corliss Appraises Avatar: A World of Wonder
- Why Does Google Search Love Examiner.com?
Top Stories on TIME.com
Quotes of the Day »
HILLARY CLINTON, Secretary of State, appealing to Iranian authorities, who said they will try the three American hikers who were arrested in July after allegedly crossing the Iran-Iraq border; Iran's Foreign Minister said they had "dubious intent"
RSS