Month: September 2019
Articles created in the month of September 2019
Eating History - The Potato
Posted on September 7, 2019 by Hunter Rigaud
This root vegetable is probably among the most popular vegetables in our contemporary world.It's come a long way from its atmosphere thin roots in the South American mountain ranges.Long before the potato reached the beaches of the Emerald Isle, it was widely cultivated some 7,000 years prior to its debut in Europe.The Western World did not even encounter it before about the mid-sixteenth century and it wouldn't make it into the Old World for another few decades...