Blue-fleshed potatoes: Purple Chief

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By Elizabeth Schneider

Published 2001

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Large, smooth, typical baking potato form; stunning indigo-grape skin, cream flesh with a violet perimeter. Best baked—light, creamy, almost fluffy. Good mashed, too. Steamed is light, starchy-mealy, fresh. Note that the brilliant blueness vanishes, leaving only a blue-gray trace in the skin.