Potato Salad

Warm or cool? That’s the main issue when considering potato salad, which can be as simple as well-cooked nuggets of potato mixed with mayonnaise. It might contain bits of sweet pickle and celery, or it can sport the sorts of things one would put on a baked potato: shredded cheese, sour cream, bacon. Hard-boiled egg also may be in the lineup when the salad is a cool one. When it’s hot, it might be listed on the menu as German potato salad and dressed with sweet and sour vinaigrette. At Barrows Catfish Restaurant in New Orleans, potato salad is supercharged with an exclamatory hail of spice. At DeShawn’s Seafood and Chicken in North Augusta, South Carolina, “hot baked potato salad” is rich with cheese and generously ribboned with bacon.