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Sometimes, you just want plain potato chips, without the powdery ranch flavoring or day-glo red of barbecue dust. Here they are. A mandoline is helpful for making them, and take care to get your potatoes really dry before you fry them. The writer M.F.K. Fisher was passionate — even vicious — about potato chips, and here she does not steer us wrong.

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