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The first written mention of the potato is a receipt for delivery dated 28 November 1567 between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Antwerp. In France, at the end of the 16th century, the potato had been introduced to the Franche-Comté, the Vosges of Lorraine and Alsace.
The potato had been introduced from South America to Europe by the Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century. ... The first step in the acceptance of the potato ...
Invented in 1949, and marketed and sold commercially by Hasbro in 1952, Mr. Potato Head is an American toy that consists of a plastic potato and attachable plastic parts, such as ears and eyes, to make a face. It was the first toy ever advertised on television.
1607: hominy first introduced to European explorers by Native Americans in Jamestown, Virginia [75] 1609: A trial planting in Virginia is the first cultivation of Rice in the United States. [25] 1625: Watermelons are widespread in Europe, as a minor garden crop. [33] 1629: First introduction of watermelons in North America, in Massachusetts. [33]
This particular potato variety was developed by Burbank and exported to Ireland to "revive that country's leading crop" [2] as it is slightly late-blight-resistant. (Late blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe, but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the Irish population's high dependency on potatoes as a crop.
Whataroa potato (taewa), an example of a Māori potato. Potatoes originate in the Andes and temperate Chile, and were introduced into Europe in the second half of the 16th century, as part of the Columbian exchange. [7] Māori traditions maintain that taewa were cultivated well before Europeans first visited New Zealand.
A baked potato is sometimes called a jacket potato in the United Kingdom. The baked potato has been popular in the UK for many years. In the mid-19th century, jacket potatoes were sold on the streets by hawkers during the autumn and winter months. In London, it was estimated that some 10 tons of baked potatoes were sold each day by this method ...
Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk or both, producing an approximation of mashed potatoes. They are available in many different flavors.