Momma’s Potato Salad

When I was in college, a friend invited me to come with him to his family’s home in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, for a long weekend. My mother, who would never allow her Southern daughter to go somewhere empty-handed, made a huge bowl of potato salad. It must have been quite popular, as when I attended his mother’s funeral some thirty-five years later, his older sister was still talking about how good that potato salad was.

These days, my friend lives in Atlanta, but he st