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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 European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...
Former location of the potato museum in Grafinger Straße. Das Kartoffelmuseum (The Potato Museum) is one of many museums devoted to this staple food. It concentrated on the art historical aspects of the potato. It was located in Munich, Germany, but closed in 2016.
The lithograph Sturm auf die Kartoffelstände shows an angry crowd attacking potato merchants. Vinzenz Katzler (1823–1882), around 1847 in Vienna. The "Potato revolution" (in German, Kartoffelrevolution) is the name given to the food riot that took place in the Prussian capital Berlin between April 21 and April 22/23, 1847.
By the start of the war, Germany consumed potatoes more than any other food, and the shortage greatly changed the gastronomic tastes of the Germans. [21] In addition to affecting the Germans’ tastes, replacing the potatoes did not allow the German people to get the necessary vitamins and minerals they were accustomed to acquiring. [21]
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.
The Potato Germans (Kartoffeltyskere) were a group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term is sometimes also extended to their descendants.
The Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History is a book by John Reader outlining the role of the potato (the esculent of the title) in world history. [1] [2] It was also published under the titles The Untold History of the Potato and Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent. [3] [4]