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History of the potato. Potato ceramic from the Moche culture (Larco Museum Collection). The potato was the first domesticated vegetable in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia [1] between 8000 and 5000 BC. [2] Cultivation of potatoes in South America may go back 10,000 years, [3] but tubers do not preserve ...
1719: Potatoes first introduced in North America: Scottish-Irish settlers bring them to New Hampshire. [71] 1740: The harsh winter of 1740 damages many crops but not potatoes, hastening their adoption in Europe. [20] 1760: Egg nog was invented in North Carolina and was a common alcoholic beverage. [76]
The potato (/ pəˈteɪtoʊ /) is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are 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.
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries. It is named after the Italian explorer Christopher ...
Purple potatoes are a variety of potatoes eaten regularly in the "Blue Zone" in Okinawa, Japan, meaning they could play a role in helping you live to 100. Other factors like lifestyle, genetics ...
The onion plant (Allium cepa), also known as the bulb onion [ 6 ] or common onion, [ 3 ]: 9–10 is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.[ 7 ][ 8 ] It was first officially described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. [ 9 ] A number of synonyms have appeared in its taxonomic history:
Modern technological advances. 1700 – British Agricultural Revolution ends. 1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states. 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture. 1809 – French confectioner Nicolas Appert invents canning.
Maize, potatoes, sweet potatoes and manioc were the key crops that spread from the New World to the Old, while varieties of wheat, barley, rice and turnips traveled from the Old World to the New. There had been few livestock species in the New World, with horses, cattle, sheep and goats being completely unknown before their arrival with Old ...