The document discusses the history and cultural significance of potatoes from their origins among ancient Inca civilizations to their global spread and importance as a food staple. It covers potatoes arriving in Europe and the United States, the Irish potato famine, famous potato dishes and varieties from different cultures, and notable people and events involving potatoes throughout history. The document provides illustrations and quotes about potatoes from literature, art, and popular culture.

1. By Teresa Lazzaro, Ph.D teresamlazaro@gmail.com

2. V Century Before Christ Incas grow and worship papas:
ancient potatoes have purplish skins and yellow flesh
1536 – Potatoes arrive in Europe from Peru:
1540 Pedro Cieza de Leon writes about potatoes in the
Chronicles of Peru
1609 – European sailors take the potato to China
1719 – Potatoes arrive in USA
1787 Parmentier prepares a potato banquet for Louis XVI
1798 Vincenzo Corrado d’Oria writes "Trattato delle patate
per uso di cibo”
1801 – President Jefferson serves French Fries at a White
House dinner
1845 – The Irish potato famine
1853 – Potato crisp invented in New York
1952 – They invent a toy: ‘Mr Potato Head’
1995 – A potato grows in space
2008 – United Nations International Year of the Potato

3. Old ilustrations describe potatoes

5. Different leaves and
different flowers

7. In Ihado they grow mainly Russet Burbank potatoes.
People bake them. Idaho is the potato State.

8. An old potato catalogue
An American school has a potato field and
Students grow sweet potatoes

9. The British and potatoes

10. John Mitchel is the first journalist
who writes about the Irish famine.
These insects kill potatoes

11. A poster about potatoes Americans sell T-shirts
when a potato grows in
space
Switzerland issues a potato
stamp in 2008

13. If beef's the king of
meat, potato's the
queen of the garden
world.
Irish Saying

14. "What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a
pretty decent sort of fellow.“
A. A. Milne (1882-1956), popular children's author

17. There are many different kind of potatoes

20. Famous
people
involved with
potatoes

22. “Money is the root of all
evil, and yet it is such a useful
root that we cannot get on
without it any more than we can
without potatoes.“
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American novelist

23. "Potatoes served at
breakfast, At dinner
served again;
Potatoes served at
supper, Forever and
aMen!“

26. Potato eaters is a
famous painting. It is
the masterpiece of Van
Gogh’s Dutch period.
The artist studies
hands, people and food
for many months in
1885. He eats with the
Groot family and the
children are his models.
The painting celebrates
the work of hands as the
family eats the meal
under a lamp. The colors
are dark just like the
colors of the working
soil. The painting is in
Amsterdam and you can
admire it at the Vincent
Van Gogh Foundation.

27. Potato focaccia
Roast potatoes
Irish potato bread Colconnon
Famous potato dishes Potato apple cake
Potato salame
Potato soufflè
Cottage pie

28. People all
over
the world
love
and eat
potatoes
Irish cameroon
New England Clam chowder
"A diet that consists predominantly of rice Italian gnocchi al radicchio
leads to the use of opium, just as a diet that
consists predominantly of potatoes leads to Italian zeppole
the use of liquor."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German
philosopher

29. Couch potatoes are people
on sofas in front of TV
for hours
Potatoes are in books
Mr Potato
Head is in
the film
Toy story 3
Michelle Obama grows pota

30. Louis Daniel Armstrong
(August 4, 1901– July 6, 1971)
an African American is the most
famous jazz musician of the 20th
century. Many call him Satchmo
because of his big lips.
One of his first recordings in
1925 is Potato Head Blues.
In Manhattan, Woody Allen
considers it one of the few things
worth living for.