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- Despite the geographic link between North and South America, the first potato crop in North America was actually the result of potatoes being transported to New Hampshire from Ireland in 1719. Potatoes would become convenient and popular in the United States, finding themselves adopted and loved by those who lived there.
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The potato was the first domesticated vegetable in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia [1] between 8000 and 5000 BC. [2] . Cultivation of potatoes in South America may go back 10,000 years, [3] but tubers do not preserve well in the archaeological record, making identification difficult.
In 2009, potato blight wiped out most of the tomatoes and potatoes on the East Coast of the United States. Driven by an unusually wet summer, it turned gardens into slime.
It is believed Spanish sailors in the 1570s brought potatoes back with them across the Atlantic, having introduced them to ships’ stores as a hardy foodstuff that easily survived the long journeys between South America and Spain.
Mar 3, 2020 · The humble potato was domesticated in the South American Andes some 8,000 years ago and was only brought to Europe in the mid-1500s, from where it spread west and northwards, back to the...
Aug 16, 2018 · The potato originated in South America and was used by Amerindians as a wild and also as a cultivated foodstuff. Many varieties of potatoes had thrived in South America for more than two thousand years before Columbus and the Spanish. Cultivation was especially popular in regions that are now Chile, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Sep 8, 2018 · Potatoes reached Mexico by 3000-2000 B.C., probably passing through Lower Central America or the Caribbean Islands. In Europe and North America, the South American root arrived only in the 16 th and 17 th century, respectively, after its importation by the first Spanish explorers.
May 8, 2024 · Potatoes are thought to have been independently domesticated several times and were largely cultivated in South America by the Incas as early as 1,800 years ago. Encountered by the invading Spaniards, potatoes were introduced into Europe during the second half of the 16th century.
