At Food & Wine, we rarely favor frozen over fresh — but we make an exception for french fries. Most frozen fries are par-cooked (often double-fried) and coated in a thin layer of starch and sugar, ...

Depending where you are in the US, you're bound to encounter a wide array of different French fries. Here are the absolute best, as styled by state.

The beloved, crispy fried potatoes we call "french fries" actually have Belgian roots—well, actually tubers, not roots—dating back to the late 17th century. The circumstances surrounding how the ...