Meet the Lumper! (the spud that caused the Irish famine) [View all]
"soapy" doesn't sound very tasty, but still interesting.
Meet the Lumper: Ireland’s New Old Potato
An Irish farmer has revived a potato not seen since the Great Famine.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130315-irish-famine-potato-lumper-food-science-culture-ireland/
“It struck down the growing plants like frost in summer. It spread faster than the cholera amongst men.”
That description of Ireland’s historic potato blight—from English writer E.C. Large’s book The Advance of the Fungi—may sound extreme, but it’s not. The devastating disease nearly wiped out many Irish potato varieties, igniting the country’s Great Famine in the mid-19th century.
But now, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, one of those blighted potatoes is making a comeback. Meet the Lumper.
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