Recipe: Funeral Potatoes — Recipes from The Kitchn

I first learned about "funeral potatoes" while I was working on The Southern Sympathy Cookbook and discovered that it really is a perfect sympathy food — rich and comforting, easy to put together on short notice, and feeds a crowd. This version combines everyone's favorite potato accompaniments — butter, cheese, bacon, and chives — for a really hearty, homestyle dish. In times of sadness or need, people like to turn to the familiar and the comforting, and this dish certainly fits the bill.

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