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Swiss Rösti Launches On Kickstarter Monday September 10, 2018 After 4 Years In Development

I’ve been a foodie ALL my life. I don’t mean “weekend foodie”, some “kinda-wanna-be-foodie”, but a TRUE, Through and Through foodie since I watched my first episode of the Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr at the age of 5 with my Mom. She would have her eyes fixed intently on Graham as he finished preparing a delicious dish in front of a live studio audience (90% women as I recall) and as he would “gallop” up into the seats and take an unsuspecting hand of a woman to join him at the table to eat whatever he had prepared for that show. I remember hearing “Ahhhhhhh...” from Mom. Graham was so elegant with his English accent and bravado. After sitting the woman at the table, with a smile as big as the tv set on her face, he would grab the bottle of wine and pour both a glass while they sat and ate his delicious creation while everyone looked on around them. Graham had a glass in his hand or close by taking a sip here and there throughout each show. I loved his style of creativity and the way he had so much fun preparing, tossing ingredients and continually telling stories as he cooked.

Fast forward 49 years later and at the soon-to-be age of 54, I give Graham so much of the credit for my style, storytelling and, of course, the taste of a nice glass of wine while cooking. I have had hundreds of dinner parties over the years recreating recipes from cookbooks, the internet, magazines, food shows as well as inspiration I had gotten traveling internationally over the last 15 years for business. Something changed though and turned my world upside down in July of 2013. I was in southern Brazil on business at a clients home for dinner. His wife had it catered by two chefs that brought in twelve gas table top burners, pans, ingredients and a whole lot of shredded potatoes. I watched as they fried a whole lot of shredded potatoes and then cover the center of them with different fillings from meats, cheeses and vegetables and then covering all of that with another layer of shredded potatoes. Once complete, a quick flip of the pan and joila! Crispy, fried deliciousness bursting with flavors! They were plated and served in quarters with a sauce. I remember that first bite even today. It was amazing! Crispy potatoes with fillings paired beautifully. My palate was suspended in a euphoric state and when I looked up, 3 more flavors were right behind that one. I don’t remember how much I ate but I received my fill and more tasting every single one. I remember getting up the next morning craving them and knew I wanted to experience that again very soon.

I returned to Portland and set out to find, what I later found out was a Swiss Rösti (Roosh - ti), after some time on my laptop searching. I learned that it originated in the Canton of Bërn, Switzerland in the early 1800’s as a peasant food. Farmers wives would shred potatoes in the early morning, fry them, fill them with leftovers from supper the night before and then cover them with a layer of shredded potatoes and fried. This would sustain the men in the fields until supper that night.

My search continued to attempt to find them locally but came up with nothing. I searched nationally and struck out again. This really stumped me. I had just experienced what could possibly be the best thing I have ever tasted in a place so random and removed from where it actually originated and I couldn’t find them here! That’s when it hit me! So I got to work....

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