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Sowsheen is an onion white sauce with chunks of hardboiled eggs served over potatoes. Photo: Bob Luhmann The Irish and their spuds In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Bob Luhmann offers a short history of the Irish potato "famine" that was more "conscious indifference," and a Curran family recipe for sowsheen. “Po-tay-toes! Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew,” said Samwise Gamgee when asked by Gollum what taters were in Tolkien’s “The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.” There are, of course, many more ways to prepare potatoes than Samwise’s explanation, but since we’...

Skip to main content My friend Jay. He went from class president to drug dealer, then dead at 16. My desperate, personal search for answers. NJ Advance Media for NJ.com I was in the water. That’s one part I’ll always remember. It was the morning of Sunday, June 13, 1999. I was 17 and cooling off during my break as a lifeguard at a neighborhood pool down the street from my parents’ house in Reston, Virginia. I still recall that familiar rush of freedom, the heedless plunge into ice-cold water on a not-yet-hot day, that I would feel at the start of every summer.