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The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia ( from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex ), where they were domesticated 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.
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The specificity of staining in WTV tumors with Af and Af but not with NS and Af or with antiserum to potato yellow-dwarf virus and Af, and the absence of such staining in crown gall tumor tissue from sweet-clover, indicate that an antigen of WTV was being stained.
A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.
In northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they had been in the Mediterranean because the north had poor clay soil, and the potato, otherwise ideal for Northern Europe, was an American crop unknown in Europe at the time.
The cane toad was successfully introduced into New Guinea to control the hawk moth larvae eating sweet potato crops.
The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, where 150, 000 people faced disaster because their food supply was largely potatoes ( with a little herring, oatmeal and milk ).
Quayle was widely lambasted for his apparent inability to spell the word " potato ".
More recently, in the 18th century, the sweet potato was taken to New Guinea, having been introduced to the Moluccas from South America by Portuguese traders, representing the locally dominant colonial power.
Pei writes, " the potato, for its part, was in disrepute some centuries ago.
The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between the 8000 and 5000 BCE.
According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.
The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom.
The average world farm yield for potato was 17. 4 tonnes per hectare, in 2010.
In France, the most notable potato dish is the Hachis Parmentier, named after Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, a French pharmacist, nutritionist, and agronomist who, in the late 18th century, was instrumental in the acceptance of the potato as an edible crop in the country.
According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853.
The early potato chip bag was wax paper with the ends ironed or stapled together.
Kettle Foods was founded in 1978 and currently sells only trans fat-free products, including potato chips.
The only currency in use on the island at this time was the potato, and islanders labouring to construct the station were paid in kind with naval supplies for their own use, such as wood, paint and tea.
When potato blight hit the island in 1846, much of the rural population was left without food because cash crops were being exported to pay rents.
The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.
In Nordic countries, turnip was the staple crop before its replacement with potato in the 18th century.
England was exposed to new foods ( such as the potato imported from South America ), and developed new tastes during the era.
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The name potato originally referred to a type of sweet potato rather than the other way around, although there is actually no close relationship between the two plants.
New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.
95 % of Australia's production is of the orange variety named Beauregard, originally from America, known simply as sweet potato.
** Posey-A " vampire potato ", originally intended to be a wife for Bushroot.
The toy was originally produced as separate plastic parts with pushpins that could be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable.
Although originally produced as separate plastic parts to be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable, a plastic potato was added to the kit in 1964.
They were originally known as " Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips ", but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato " chip ".
The dosa is wrapped around an onion and potato curry or sabji and is originally invented by Udupi Hotels ( Diana Hotel ),
" despite Fry originally thinking he was an " outer space potato man.
The root vegetables and meat ( originally goat ) for the stew were then all in place, save for the potato.
The introduction of the potato, originally a South American crop, did not occur until after the sixteenth century.
Humpty Dumpty originally sold a variety of potato chips.
Though originally marketed as being otherwise, the current incarnations of Munchos are actually thinner than most potato chips, to the point of being slightly transparent and containing air pockets.
The Italian word frittata derives from fritto, the past participle of " to fry " ( friggere ), and was originally a general term for cooking eggs in a skillet, anywhere on the spectrum from fried egg, through conventional omelette, to an Italian version of the Spanish tortilla de patatas, made with fried potato.
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However the most spectacular changes, in both societies and environments, are believed to have occurred in the central highlands of the island within the last 1, 000 years, in association with the introduction of a crop new to New Guinea, the sweet potato ( Golson 1982a ; 1982b ).
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Many of the sweets produced in this region, such as quince, sweet potato, molasses and dulce de cayote jams, have given rise to a very well known and easily made dessert referred to as vigilante, or to so-called queso y dulce ( where a piece of fresh cheese is served with one of the sweets mentioned above ).
Gérard has not produced the manuscript supporting this claim which, even if true, is unrelated to the later history of the French fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735 ; also, given the economic conditions of the 18th century: " it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have consecrated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes.
Some speculate that the dish may have been invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared via the New World colonies, and assumes the first appearance to have been as an accompaniment to fish dishes in Galicia, from which it spread to the rest of the country and further to the Spanish Netherlands, which became Belgium more than a century later.
Aeroponic techniques have proved to be commercially successful for propagation, seed germination, seed potato production, tomato production, leaf crops, and micro-greens.
A secondary center of genetic variability of the potato is Mexico, where important wild species that have been used extensively in modern breeding are found, such as the hexaploid Solanum demissum, as a source of resistance to the devastating late blight disease.
Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid concentrations than others ; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar.
One popular favorite involves a baked potato with cheddar cheese ( or sour cream and chives ) on top, and in New England " smashed potatoes " ( a chunkier variation on mashed potatoes, retaining the peel ) have great popularity.
Others, such as the majority of the parenchyma cells in potato tubers and the seed cotyledons of legumes, have a storage function.
As nutritional intake guidelines were created in various countries and the nutrition facts label became commonplace, consumers, advocacy groups, and health organizations have focused on the nutritional value of junk foods, including potato chips.
Some potato chip companies have responded to the criticism, both informal and legal, by investing in research and development to modify existing recipes and create health-conscious products.
In the general timeframe of 2010 to 2012, stores in the United States have been featuring potato chips labeled on the package as " Kettle Cooked.
Some companies have also marketed baked potato chips as an alternative with lower fat content.
In the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and Australia, a new variety of Pringles made from rice have been released and marketed as lower in fat than their potato counterparts.
Deep-fried chips ( slices or pieces of potato ) as a dish may have first appeared in Britain in about the same period: the Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest usage of " chips " in this sense the mention in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( published in 1859 ): " Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil ".
In the last two thousand years there may have been contact with Polynesians across the South Pacific Ocean, as shown by the spread of the sweet potato through some areas of the Pacific, but there is no genetic legacy of human contact.
Some makers of snacks such as potato chips or crisps have produced baked versions of their snack items as an alternative to the usual cooking method of deep-frying in an attempt to reduce the calorie or fat content of their snack products. Baking has opened up doors to businesses like cake making factories and privatised cake shops but the baking process is done in a more larger mass in bigger and open furnaces.
For example, storage roots of sweet potato have secondary growth but are not woody.
Their carbohydrate content compares with that of wheat and rice ; chestnuts have twice as much starch as the potato.
Blackfoot is self-designated the " Potato Capital of the World ", because it claims to have the largest potato industry in the world.
This was to have disastrous effects when, in the period 1847-49 potato blight struck, making much of the potatoes grown inedible.
Researchers have found the wild potato species Solanum verrucosum to resist the late blight disease.
The term cottage pie is known to have been in use in 1791, when the potato was being introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor ( cf.
Subsequent celebrity chefs have brought a sophistication to British cooking which was not a part of Fanny ’ s repertoire, however they have acknowledged her pioneering work, when purple piped potato brought excitement to a Britain of liver and bacon suppers.
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