OUT WITH THE CHEESE BOARD, HERE IS THE FRIES BOARD

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: Away with the cheese board, here is the fries board.

The wheel, the light bulb, and fast wifi: all great inventions, but nothing compared to the latest trend in snacks: the fries board. It's a large board packed with different fries and dips. Brilliant, right?

On American food blogs, there are even recipes for a fries board, in English: French Fries Board. Recipe? Don't make us laugh. But okay: turn on the deep fryer, fry the potato croquettes, curly fries, sweet potato fries, grandma's thick fries, and French fries. Place a piece of baking paper on a nice board, dump all your fries on it, and put bowls of mayo, ketchup, piccalilli, onions, curry sauce, and other dips in between. Get napkins ready and let the feast begin.

Children's party, student house
You could see this fries board as a festive version of the fries table: a table covered with aluminum foil, a mountain of fries, and snacks for everyone, very popular in student houses and at children's parties. And that fries table is the bigger brother of the team fries: a tray full of fries in the sports canteen to celebrate a more or less athletic achievement with the whole team.

Chic snack bar
Or is the fries board a reaction to the nouveau friture trend? Those are posh snack bars, where fries with a capital F are served, made from fancy potatoes and served with truffle mayo. Not popular with everyone: Schilo from Coevorden, chef of Taiko and Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam, even calls it bullshit: ‘Has the quality of the regular snack bar declined so much that we now need chic snack bars to eat something as simple as good fries?!’

Anyway: the fries board. Which trendy place will put it on the menu next?

Photo: The Delicious Life