Potatoes

All you need, at least according to videos circulating online (including one from an Italian grandmother we particularly liked), is a cardboard box and some baking soda - and the potatoes are supposed to stay fresh for months and even a year. Sounds almost too good to be true? We checked.

Oven-baked potatoes are supposed to be the easiest side dish in the world, but a few small mistakes can turn them pale, too soft, or burnt on the outside and hard on the inside. Here is how to get golden, crispy, and perfectly soft potatoes out of the oven every single time.

A fire in the Sha'ar HaNegev industrial zone has shut down the Tapugan factory. The blaze destroyed approximately 6,000 tons of potatoes, though no product shortages are expected in stores.