Potatoes
The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself is a perennial in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.Wild potato species, originating in modern-day Peru, can be found throughout the Americas, from Canada to southern Chile. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated by indigenous peoples of the Americas independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species traced a single origin for potatoes. In the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia, from a species in …
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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 29 October 2024 English
Least developed countries (LDCs) need more investment in agriculture to increase their agricultural productivity and promote their food security. Existing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and flexibilities on agricultural domestic …
4 Raw milk of cattle 9,013 3,6979 1,00310 5 Potatoes 7,418 5811 1912 Source: Author’s elaboration … for “vegetables” in Japan, which may include potatoes. 12 This figure includes Blue Box – production-limiting …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
Now you can cheer for the Habs every day of the year! The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most storied franchises in hockey. No club has won more Stanley …
dropped the Capitals blueliner like a sack of potatoes. A brawl ensued, halting play for nearly 20 minutes …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 8 October 2024 English
Everyone's guide to using the power of science to produce healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables From garden to fork, Food Science for Gardeners is everyone's guide to optimizing the …
longer period of time. For example, you can grow potatoes and then store them in a root cellar until needed … peppers (spicy and sweet paprika), eggplant, and potatoes. All of these plants contain a substance called … seed. Ripe tomatoes have almost no tomatine. Potatoes contain even more solanine than tomatoes and they … male would have to eat about sixty-seven large potatoes to be poisoned. There hasn’t been a single case … case of solanine poisoning in the US from eating potatoes in the last fifty years. The story about solanine …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 17 September 2024 English
A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. "An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar …
conversation,” Yoo said. “And the Cactus Cut Potatoes.” “Anything else?” “Should we order pizza together …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English
At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …
Bordeaux differ from the poison extracted from potatoes or beets.”18 The renowned Canadian historian … of alcohol distilled from grain – and also from potatoes, beets, and more – which they viewed as inferior …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
much as one third of the late autumn crop of potatoes was destroyed, although the losses varied from … been concern for the quantity and quality of seed potatoes for the crop intended for 1846, most Irish farmers … year even though there was a modest harvest of potatoes by year’s end. This ray of hope was dashed by …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Without Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along …
sautés them in butter with the leftover cubed potatoes we had at lunch. I have developed a taste for … a sweater on Lorraine, all the while peeling potatoes. Modest Marie, Marie without desires. Marie, …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame …
made Irish food. Boiled beef with carrots and potatoes. Cabbage soup. My brother Mike could eat a table …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 3 September 2024 English
Explores the integral roles that Métis women assumed to ensure the survival of their communities during the fur trade era and onward Métis Matriarchs examines the impact of prominent Métis …
alongside, clearing fields and picking rocks or potatoes. Women also worked for settler families and maintained …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this …
supplies from their own stores, distributing potatoes that had been grown at the post, salt fish, and …