Potato – valuable vegetable
Potato – valuable vegetable
The potato is one of the main food crops of the world. It grows well in cool climates. The potato belongs to the nightshade family of plants, which also includes eggplant, tomatoes, and garden peppers. The scientific name of the potato is Solanum tuberosum. It is not related to the sweet potato.
The potato plant can grow to 50 to 100 centimeters high. It has white, purple, violet, or lilac flowers depending on the variety of plant. The stems of the potato plant grow underground and the ends of the stems thicken to form potatoes. The potatoes have eyes that can grow into new potato plants.
Potato always takes one of the first places on our table – boiled, fried, smashed. A single medium sized potato contains about 100 calories with no fat. Potato contains more than 80% of water, but in addition it is rich in vitamins and minerals. In particular, the potato contains a lot of provitamin A, which is necessary for maintaining good eyesight.
Amazing potatoes
Potatoes produce alcohol, and alcohol is used to produce synthetic rubber and other products; alcohol is also widely used in medicine and perfumes.
Indians of South America might have grown potatoes as early as 1,800 years ago. Spanish explorers of the Americas brought potatoes back to Europe in the 1500s. Potatoes were imported to Europe in the 16th century, but until the 18th century they remained little-known. For a long time potatoes were a rarity and was considered a delicacy. It was eaten only in wealthy houses. And the court ladies decorated their hair with flowers of potatoes.
King of Prussia Frederick II threatened to cut off the noses and ears of those who did not want to plant potatoes. In France, cunning pharmacist Parmantier promoted potatoes to the masses. He planted potatoes on several fields and ordered to guard them. Soldiers guarded the fields during the day and went to bed at night. Nearby peasants, of course, could not resist the temptation and began stealing a protected vegetable and planting in their fields.
Attractive potatoes
Three hundred years ago potatoes – a useful and tasty product – were cursed by the Orthodox Church in Russia, and citizens were afraid even to touch a strange vegetable or fruit.
In times of gold rush, potato saved people from scurvy, and gold miners valued it more than gold.
French fries appeared thanks to the American President Thomas Jefferson, who first offered his guests an unusual dish.
In the world there are several museums of potatoes.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato.
La Bonnotte is the most expensive potato in the world.
Khalil Semhat farmed the largest potato in the world with the weight of 11.2 kilograms!
Potato – valuable vegetable
Fried potatoes
Interesting potatoes
Lovely potatoes
Potato Tree
Purple potato
Tasty potatoes
Violet potato flowers
White potato flowers
Wonderful potatoes
Colorful potatoes
Monuments to potato
A monument to potatoes, Kiev region
Big Potato in Australia, Robertson, New South Wales
Folk monument to potato in Novgorod Region
Idaho Potato Museum
Mariinsk, Russia
Monument to potato in Minsk
Monument to potato in Poland
Monument to potatoes in Bolivia
Monument to potatoes on Prince Edward Island, Canada
Monument to potatoes, Tyumen region
Monument to sweet potato and pumpkin in Urawa, Japan
Sculptural composition dedicated to potatoes
Potatoes in painting
Yuri Pimenov. Plant potatoes
William Small. Potato Digging in the Kitchen Garden.
William Merritt Chase. The Potato Patch. 1893
Vsevolod Voinov. Picking potatoes. 1939
Vincent van Gogh. Potato eaters
Victor Safronov. On the potato field. 1980s
Valentin Polyakov. Picking potatoes. 1953
Thomas Frederick Mason Sheard A Man Digging Potatoes. 1890
Tatiana Sus’. Potato field
Stepan Kolesnikov. Picking potatoes
Pyotr Kozlov. Potatoes. 2002
Phyllis May Reynette James. Potato Pickers near Melton, Leicestershireby.
Pentelei Molnar Janos. The Potato Harvest.
Natalia Gudovich. Still life on the grass. 2009
Martin Driscoll. Sorting Seed Potatoes.
Martin Driscoll. Digging Potatoes.
Lucien Simon. La recolte des pommes de terre. 1923
Jules Breton. The Potato Harvest.
Jules Bastien-Lepage. Saison d’Octobre. Recolte des Pommes deTerre. 1878
Jean-Francois Millet. Harvesting potatoes.
Jean Francois. Millet The Angelus. 1857-59
Jean Francois. Millet Piantatori di Patate. 1861
Jacques Bonnier. Fin de la journee
J. P. Rooney The Potato Gatherers.
Henri Lerolle. Harvesting Potatoes.
Harry Fidler. Clearing the Potato Field.
Guy Rose. The Potato Gatherers. 1891
Frederick Leighton. Planting Potatoes.
Flora MacDonald Reid. The Potato Harvesters.
Ernest Masson. The Potato Harvest.
Edith Martineau. The Potato Harvest. 1888
David Burliuk. Peasants picking potatoes. 1947
Carl Larsson. Potato Harvest.
Camille Pissarro. Potato Harvest II.
Camille Pissarro. Potato Harvest I. 1893
Camille Pissarro. Peasants Harvesting Potatoes.
Boris Kustodiev
Arkady Plastov. Picking potatoes. 1956
Alexey and Sergei Tkachev. Work days. 1973-74
Alexey and Sergei Tkachev. Potato. 1970
Aleks Gart. Potato. 2008
