Tag: potato
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Food as medicine
Keerthi GondyAnn Arbor, Michigan, United States In my family, food is the language of love. A warm meal is the way we say “I love you.” Whenever I get sick, my mother prepares a pot of spicy turmeric soup and honey lemon tea. When my brother threw a game-winning strike for his baseball team, we…
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The tuber that changed the world: a brief history of the potato
Jennifer MusgraveBloomington, Indiana, United States When Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, he did not know that potatoes even existed. But the Columbian voyages to the Americas would initiate a domino effect allowing this unassuming but life-sustaining tuber to spread from its South American origins to the Old World and by its introduction change the…