February’s culinary stars include all manner of foods claiming to enhance feelings of love or improve heart health. With Valentine’s Day smack in the middle of the month, we may be enjoying amour-boosting chocolate from the beginning to the end of the month. Some people have other ideas for February’s focus.

February is also claimed as Potato Lover’s Month, and I’d like to make an argument for the benefits of eating potatoes, especially highly pigmented potatoes like Alaska’s own Magic Molly, perhaps not as an aphrodisiac, but for keeping our families and ourselves healthy.