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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 ...
Today, Americans consume approximately 70 million pounds (32,000 t) of Tater Tots, or 3,710,000,000 Tots per year. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Since at least 2016, vegetable companies (like the Green Giant brand) have introduced "veggie tots" which seek to substitute more nutritionally dense vegetables (e.g. broccoli and cauliflower ) for the potato.
2.5-1.8 million years ago: The discovery of the use of fire may have created a sense of sharing as a group. Earliest estimate for invention of cooking, by phylogenetic analysis. [3] 250,000 years ago: Hearths appear, accepted archeological estimate for invention of cooking chicken. [4] 170,000 years ago: Cooked starchy roots and tubers in ...
The 'Fortuna' GM potato variety developed by BASF was made resistant to late blight by introgressing two resistance genes, blb1 and blb2, from S. bulbocastanum, a wild potato native to Mexico. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Rpi-blb1 is a nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR/NLR), an R-gene-produced immunoreceptor.
An old style of potato peeler . In the mid 18th century, Doe developed the first julienne potato peeler, designed to simplify the process of removing potato skins. [citation needed] The device featured a simple yet effective mechanism that made peeling potatoes faster and more efficient. [11]
Assistant food editor Taylor Ann Spencer shares everything you need to know to make the best scalloped potatoes ever.
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.
"Her blog was selected by Blogger as 'Blog of Note' in 2009 and she was named Austin's Blogger of the Year at the Austin Blogger Awards in 2010," reads Hipstercrite.com. Modery has also won awards ...