 chedare says: Comes from the Andes & grown for 8000 years.World food security has ensured that its importance as an important source of food be brought to our attention. Having a sustainable growing systems guide and campaign called, International Year of the Potato..... .A United Nations international year once actually meant something.The potato is already an integral part of the global food system. It is the world’s number one non-grain food commodity, with production reaching a record 325 million tonnes in 2007. Potato consumption is expanding strongly in developing countries, which now account for more than half of the global harvest and where the potato’s ease of cultivation and high energy content have made it a valuable cash crop for millions of farmers. . In Peru, for example, the government has acted to reduce costly wheat imports by encouraging people to eat bread that includes potato flour. In China, the world's biggest potato producer, agriculture experts have proposed that potato Potatoes are rich in carbohydrates, making them a good source of energy. They have the highest protein content (around 2.1 percent on a fresh weight basis) in the family of root and tuber crops, and protein of a fairly high quality, with an amino-acid pattern that is well matched to human requirements. They are also very rich in vitamin C - a single medium-sized potato contains about half the recommended daily intake - and contain a fifth of the recommended daily value of potassium. Potatoes are my favourite food. I could eat them everyday forever. @tanni...hi thanks for endorsement of them, I think there is recipes some where on site.I know in Peru they are doing big variety of ways of cooking them .I like mashed with onions, but plain boiled with butter quick guys cooking ha ha red ones ,forget name,(pontiac?) mind boggles at all the boutique varieties. I use old car tyre filled in with compost and they grow out of top quite happily not too many hassles, spray with pyrethrum to stop bugs eating, but good to grow own , when cupboard is bare, cheers. I really like the genuine Yukon Gold. The potato even when cooked is a beautiful golden colour. Have you ever tried the french fry sandwich. Someone had a clip of the 10 best sandwiches and it was in there. I had one years ago. It's good with mayonnaise and fried onions. Love mashed potatoes and gravy. It's really hard to ruin potatoes. I'm going to try and grow some in my patio garden this summer. Hi tanni.. no never tried Yukon gold but there are so many.Remember my tyre method in with compost I also add sheep poo but doesn't matter about that .Baby spuds or the nodes off peelings work too ,don't forget they are real easy to grow. hé farmer ché long time no laughter & silly breaze wid ya - did u go see joseph, get to the music? or just had to get them sheep sheeped? xc @chara ,,hey hi honey pants.Yes I took Joseph 7 to a few hot days of country music festival.He saw another little guy his size playing and forgetting his lines as ze Japonese tourist took each others photos swatting besides him ha ha ha.He cost me heeps on dodgum cars as he was too short to go on big rides of carnival at night time.It was a big adventure for him to camp with Jack & me besides Peel River with echo of bands from hotels as drunks walked home yelling at each other & the mosquitos also liked us.Ah but we felt safe with big bad Jack to bark if stranger came to close to our sleeping bags.The boy found ze toyshop on way home but did not get 'guitar hero 3" $169. as not long since ... @ché eetz good to see yor accent is getting stronger...ziz & zat is zo much more intelligible than this & that to me now. in fact i ruined a perfectly good english accent in my first year in france...tricking the french into talking to me with familiar cooing sounds. useful then but pretty dogastrophic in the long run. i can more or less speak english again, even my dutch is almost back, & french is a slippery fish in a hot fryingpan but éc'est la vie,,,"étc i am taking aloé with me&calis on my two-monthly return to england next week. i worked on a oops sent to soon cha@ché continué.... publication in london last year before it folded, & am establishing anglo-franco linX & resources. my mega-ace programmer is french so i spend more time in france as a good way to be with my girl. over the last two years, tony, le papa, would travel over with us in summer as she didn't want to leave him behind alone. this will be the first time she can see that he is cool & she can come over & have some fun. i am taking her out of school 2 days early coz our flights r only six euros for us3 both ways, total. if i waited for the winter sport holiday to begin then its a minimum of a 100 bucks, so lucky strike for us! i dont envy u the accounts ting.....e... @chara ..Hi a quick few lines school seems to have us rotate our lives around it even when grown up.It is good to hear some of your life happenings.My my Dutch sounds to me a bit like German no comprehenda. Jack & I will raid their precious beach soon Dutchie Babe has been off learning to surf doing all tourist stuff me I stay home have beer & ciggy while the health nuts are of at beach getting jobs done on wheels for big trip back ,,seems you out smarted the air line marketers er racketeers good girl. OK must hurry for mealtime cheers stay having Fun ok,,xxc |
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