Cami Bohrer
Food Writer
As a youngster, Tom Snyder could always find his mother elbow deep in potatoes when a picnic was coming up.
“I seriously remember my mother making like a gallon of potato salad for family picnics,” he said.
That potato salad popularity continued into Snyder’s high school years. “Whenever there was an event, I would volunteer my mother’s potato salad.”
Then his career as a Methodist minister had Snyder moving away from his hometown, leaving him to his own devices. “So, I started experimenting.”
Eventually, he developed a dill mustard potato salad, which he deemed was the best of the best. Basically a combination of two recipes, this winner established a compromise of sorts between him and his wife Kitty, who is not particularly fond of mayonnaise. “And I don’t like the sweet Miracle Whip,” he said.