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Eating intellectually active sweet potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Chaotic Andean potato diversity program

Going on for millennia:
"The result was chaotic diversity. Potatoes in one village at one altitude could look wildly unlike those a few miles away in another village at another altitude."
And chuño, the dried potato that fueled conquering Inca armies:

Credit: Eitan Abramovich / AFP / Getty Images
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Labels: agriculture, Diet, history, South America

Friday, October 14, 2011

"Potato Wars: eye for an eye"

Instapundit links.

I mentioned the issue here.
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Labels: agriculture, Diet, food disparagement, french fries, Instapundit, potato politics

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Compassionate conservatives in action

Hoosier Potato Farmers Singlehandedly Produce And Donate Enough For 1/10th Of Those Needing U.S. Safety Net

file: Journal Gazette

Food Insecurity: 1 in 6 Americans Struggles to Buy Food
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Labels: agriculture, Diet, hunger
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