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Specialty Spuds

Leave it to a collection of Idaho cooks to write the book on potatoes.

“Beyond Burlap,” by the Junior League of Boise, includes more than 200 recipes for everything from Neapolitan Potato Pizza to Mashed Potato Waffles to Apricot-Filled Chocolate Potato Cake, along with historic photos and plenty of potato trivia.

And if you want to try them out with Washington spuds, well, we won’t tell.

Price: $19.95.

Available: At Red Rooster Trading Co. in Coeur d’Alene, Vanderford’s in Sandpoint and by mail (call 1-888-340-5754 or 208-342-5754; add $3 shipping and handling, 5 percent sales tax for Idaho residents; burlap bag and gift wrap $3 extra).

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Do you know of a new, unusual or just plain good food item? Tell us about it at Food Finds, Features Department, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Call 459-5446; fax 459-5098.