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Mentions of the potato to European readers were made in Historia de las Indias in 1552 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who wrote that in 1537, when he was in what is now the South American nation of Colombia, his party came across "una especie de trufas" ("a type of truffle") when entering homes of Chibcha people who had fled from the Bogotá ...
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.
Today, the Russet Burbank potato is the most widely cultivated potato in the United States. The potato is popular because it doesn't expire as easily as other types of potatoes. [7] A large percentage of McDonald's french fries are made from this cultivar. Photograph by Gabriel Moulin
No, those fries aren't made from molded potato goo. To find out what McDonald's fries are made of, Grant "reverse engineers" the French fry, starting from the fully finished fry at the restaurant ...
Man in England finds entire potato in bag of potato chips
I've made Garten's most popular potato recipes and decided to rank my favorites. These recipes are fantastic year-round, but if you're looking for a great holiday side dish , I've got you covered.
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (UK: / p ɑːr ˈ m ɛ n t i eɪ,-ˈ m ɒ n t-/, US: / ˌ p ɑːr m ə n ˈ t j eɪ /, [1] French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ paʁmɑ̃tje]; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe.
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]