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Potatoes comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47] The potato promoted economic development in Britain by underpinning the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. It ...
The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.
John Richard Simplot (/ ˈ s ɪ m p l ɒ t /; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products.
Man in England finds entire potato in bag of potato chips
Junius George Groves, the son of Martin and Mary Anderson Groves, was born in slavery on April 12, 1859, in Green County, Kentucky. [1] Junius was the third of seven children, three brothers (Peter, James and Robert) and three sisters (Catharine, Amanda and Virginia).
Whole potatoes are lined up using high pressure water to go through a tube at speeds between 60 to 70 miles per hour through a potato cutter for precision cutting.
The potato-shaped rock was found as Jacobs was playing tour guide to a family, and she presented it to them as a souvenir. “They went away over the moon with a cool fossil they can show all ...
8000-5000 BCE: Earliest domestication of potato in the neighbourhood of Lake Titicaca. [20] ~8000 BCE: Wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples [21] ~7000 BCE: Cereal (grain) production in Syria [17] ~7000 BCE: Farmers in China began to farm rice and millet, using man-made floods and fires as part of their cultivation regimen. [17]