For Memorial Day, a stash of tried and true potluck recipes

Memorial Day weekend is here, and with it, all the attendant demands for potluck offerings, followed by the furious thumbing-through of cookbooks. Oh, the glory of basking in oohs, aahs, of being hounded for recipes. No one wants to be the owner of the still-brimming platter on the picnic table — the one everyone politely passes over. The “luck” in potluck comes from tried-and-true, no-fail, consistently awesome recipes. Josh Kim, owner of the Spot truck, has wowed friends and family with his grilled chicken wings, rubbed with the unlikely combination of herbes de Provence and ginger, then basted with a beer-diluted barbecue sauce. My friend Sara Goddard and her fiance, Joe Daly, both avid home cooks, break out their reliable Cornell chicken and venison spiedies once the weather turns warm. My own repertoire, after many summers of trial and error, includes Dave Lieberman’s refreshing Asian slaw, Steve Poses’ zippy Italian pasta salad, and Suzanne Goin’s luscious pork burgers.