Oliviye is a popular potato salad in the former USSR, easy to cook and budget-friendly - Reporter’s Notebook

An average American consumes 124 pounds of potatoes per year, including potato salads. American restaurants and grocery stores offer a simplified version of potato salad, stuffed with boiled potatoes, a few pickles, and mixed with mayonnaise.    As a former USSR resident, I am familiar with a more sophisticated version of potato salad called Oliviye. The Soviets or…