If Plato had imagined hash browns, they'd have been rosti: good potatoes coarsely grated, pressed, and fried. In the dish's native Switzerland, recipes include bacon, rosemary, caraway seeds, eggs, pasta, cheese, even coffee. These variations can be delicious, but we found the definitive version in Bern, at Restaurant Della Casa–golden, impeccable, ideal. –from "Swiss Bliss" (January/February 1998)
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