From "The Work of the Devil" to Fast Food French Fries: The Wild Story of Potatoes

Really disappointed you repeated the Saratoga chip myth, there's been multiple articles by historians showing there's zero evidence Crum had anything to do with chips.

Potatoes and yellow onions are two root vegetables that is easy to grow in Newfoundland. Plop an old potato piece with sprouts growing on it into some soil, keep watered, and you'll have more potatoes 🥔

We get late frosts and sometimes snow into June. My potato leaves died back two seasons ago because of hard frost in early June. A week later new leaves were popping up in their place. It's such a hardy plant.

Another fascinating and mind expanding edition.... Love it. The end note about potatoes are gonna be an essential for any attempts to colonise space;- In the movie 'The Martian' that's exactly how Matt Damon survives his abandonment on Mars of course; by planting spuds!. Good job mate!! Love your channel, you are now my #1 favourite you- TUBER!

if you want to make Chuno the easy way? get a food dehydrator. you see one point you forget is that at high altitudes the air is DRY- like denver colorado its single digits (as opposed to philadelphia where its 80% not 8)
so.. freeze it. throw it in a dehydrator. freeze it, throw it in a dehydrator... repeat
or
go the modern route and get a freeze dryer...

have you done sweet potatoes? because how it reached some places is fascinating!

Excellent video. I often say "ive never met a potato i didnt like."

My mum used to save the potato water after boiling them and we'd drink it cold the next day - sometimes she'd pour it into the houseplants with eggshell water ... good old school rules..

I am glad you do start with the Inca empire...in the site of Moray or Moras, the spiral descent of path into the center of the site was known to test how to grow potatoes with a temperature different of 5 degrees celcius, surface to "green house" back then.

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I am from Bolivia. Your welcome, world.. 🥔😉

I like the deep dive you do on the channel, blending history, archealogy and food, but leaving out the imense environmental impact of a monoculture like the potato, as its already widely public knowledge, seems a bit of an oversight.

They should consider chuño as a food for astronauts/space colonies.

I am 77 and it was only recently l learnt the health qualities of potatoes. Also, l bought a bag of baby potatoes and on the package was written 5 stars. I like very much this show on potatoes. You are very good at what you do.
I totally support Israel and l am a Christian from Australia.

I'm surprised the author didn't mention George Washington's fondness for potato pancakes! A coda on my last comment: I've tried plenty of potato stews from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as all sorts of ingenious recipes across the length and breadth of Europe from Polish pierogis to Italian gnocchi. I've tried potatoes in China and even in Thailand. While recipes from all these places can be fascinating the varieties themselves are rather bland and do not hold a candle to the prodigious varieties in South America where potato-based dishes are phenomenal. A suggestion to the author: Begin with Colombia (where records show that potatoes were cultivated 9,000 years ago by the local inhabitants that predated the Muisca) and journey on across to Ecuador and Peru (where records date back even further) keep on going to the southern Andes in Chile and you will be blown away! Then and only then can you claim to know all there is to know about this famed tuber!

Very informative but honestly quite Eurocentric (and I rarely if ever use that epithet but here it is warranted). Yes, the author takes us to Asia but he pretty much ignores the historic center of potato cultivation in the Americas, specifically SOUTH America, where the tuber originated and which contains to this day most of the planet's varieties (as he points out at the beginning) and this is obviously not just limited to Peru. In Colombia, for example, potatoes are central to the cuisine and were grown by the indigenous populations well before the arrival of the Europeans. The varieties are magnificent, beginning with the criollas (creole) which are golden on the inside and simply superb!! Other well-known varieties which do not exist in Europe are used for dishes such as papas chorreadas (dripped) and of course, ajiaco, the best known soup from Bogotá which uses three different varieties of the tuber. Obviously, the sheer variety in Peru is mind boggling and the cuisine is first rate. The author really needs to go to South America asap to open his eyes (and palate)!!

Potatoes shaped the course of humanity's geo-culinary-political landscape.

Potatoes and rice are conduits for flavour. I eat sourdough without anything else however I don't eat plain rice or potatoes.

Nice!
Now please do one on the sweet potato, please.
And then corn, common beans, pumpkins...
Just keep going with the Columbian exchange foods - it's fascinating to think what the world's cuisines would be like without things like potatoes, tomatoes, and chilis (sweet or hot).

Poratos AND onions were the revolution not just potatos. Basically invented "cooking" for us regular people types 😊😊

You don’t like Guinness?

Great content! However, I think adding more scientific references would make the information even more credible.

Surprised you don't have more subscribers. Great videos!:would love to see a video on carrets!

Watching this while eating mashed potatoes fries and roast beef from Culver’s thank you lord for the potato

Giant diabetes bomb.

I'm Sourh American who knows Peru very well. In Perù there are over 80 different kinds of Potatoes, that's why ia so hard to reproduce peruvian food, which is also a mix of andine and chinese cuiaine, because of the use of the potatoes. Plus, Machu Pichu is below Cuzco that is 3.800mt above sea level, so it's not 8k, but 3.200mt high. Tge highest place is Peru is not habited and its called Rainbow 🌈 Mountain, which is 7k above sea level.

Thank you

Actual food history of certain recipe and it's role in dishes all over the world. AND Subtitles in videos (I'm deaf). Your content is what i needed as a history buff and heavy food eater

Adam said, "I like beer that tastes like beer." I say the same for coffee! 😀

Hello watched hmm

He pronounces it like Pitatoes.

now i know the top food for the apocalypse... if you can preserve it like this... ! dint realize potato is space food...!

Me gustaría que hicieras el episodio de las papas o patatas de donde realmente son originarias PERÚ

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As always. Religion screwing with everything!!

Cuisine is merely the French word for kitchen

But most importantly, potatoes kept Matt Damon alive when he was stranded on Mars.

Can’t imagine tortilla Española without potatoes

Now if they turned poo into charcoal burning power source we d probably be alright .probably a patent from 1913 .lol

History ist not true…. many wrong facts..

I wonder if my Ninja could dehydrate them......

Starches get a bad rap yet Humans not only survived on starches, they thrived. In fact Human population explosion only happens because of starch (rice, beans, corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, BREAD, and more). For 15’000 years humans consumed bread and they were warriors (trim and healthy). The Roman Gladiators were referred to as the “Barley Men”.

My cousin Yul Suk Wi in China loves potatoes but has indulged too much and now they are overweight and diabetic.

Great episode…. Good info and laugh out loud funny moments 😂😂