Where would German food be without the potato, Italian food without the tomato, or Thai food without chilies, all originally products of the New World?
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For rats on the high-fat diet, the group that ate both types of potato chips gobbled more food, gained more weight, and developed more fatty tissue than the rats that ate only the high-calorie chips.
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Canadian food mogul Wallace McCain was the son of a potato seed exporter in New Brunswick, part of a long line of Irish farmers.
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Mateschitz also intends to employ the Carpe Diem banner for a chain of fast food outlets offering Austrian and international food packaged in edible "crunchy containers" made out of potato.
Consider a simple example: In a recent study at Harvard University, volunteers were seated at a table with a plate of potato chips directly in front of them and another food tucked away unobtrusively in the corner of the room.
On a continent where population growth outstrips food supply growth by 1% a year, Wambugu's modified sweet potato offers tangible hope.
Yet in this vastly changing landscape of food, I have tried all different kinds: zucchini, beet, sweet potato, celery root, and apple-horseradish.
The potato is as close as we get to an all-purpose food, one that on its own could feed you quite healthfully.
If suddenly trans fats were declared to be a healthful food additive that helped prevent cancer, the price of french fries would soar until potato production was ramped up.
The food options, though, tend toward the untraditional and where they do attempt classics, like German potato salad and a baked pretzel, it falls short of the competition.
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