How the potato made the world

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Adam Ragusea

Adam Ragusea

10 ай бұрын

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"The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment," Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian, 2011: www.nber.org/papers/w15157
"A societal history of potato knowledge in Sweden
c. 1650-1800," Erik Bodensten, 2020: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
"Soldier, soldier, what made you grow so tall? A study of height, health, and nutrition in Sweden, 1720-1881," L.G. Sandberg and R.H. Steckel, 1980: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

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@gavinyeomans
@gavinyeomans 10 ай бұрын
One fact about the Irish potato famine that people often forget to mention is that Ireland was still producing enough food to feed its entire population during the famine, but British officials forced the citizens to export most of their crop yields to Great Britain in order to feed the people there. It was a predominately man-made famine.
@mvpandrew93
@mvpandrew93 10 ай бұрын
*Ireland never forgets. Tried taking our language too*
@workingclasscook870
@workingclasscook870 10 ай бұрын
This comment should be pinned.
@chettlar212
@chettlar212 10 ай бұрын
​@@workingclasscook870I agree. Incredibly important. The rabbit trail about this is crazy
@Indy__isnt_it
@Indy__isnt_it 10 ай бұрын
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCort is a true story of a boy growing up in the worst of conditions. Excellent account of his young life. (Part 2 'Tis)
@sarahwatts7152
@sarahwatts7152 10 ай бұрын
Plus when food aid did come, they sent cornmeal, which the Irish had never really used before (and which doesn't have as much nutrition in the absence of nixtamalization)
@brianm7287
@brianm7287 10 ай бұрын
In China, it wasn't the potato, it was the sweet potato. The cool thing about potatoes and sweet potatoes is not only how nutritious, hardy, and easy they are, it's that they don't compete with grains. They grow in areas where grains don't, so it expands available farmland.
@DJDextek
@DJDextek 10 ай бұрын
From the Americas to Europe's embrace, Potatoes changed landscapes and gave us a taste, Of nutrition and growth, of history's might, A humble tuber's journey, shining bright.
@salahad-dinyusufibnayyub7754
@salahad-dinyusufibnayyub7754 10 ай бұрын
Same as other Asia countries like Vietnam, Japan, Korea, etc... Sweet potatoes was more common than potatoes and even until now the sweet potatoes yield also higher than potatoes in East Asia
@pedrodutra4088
@pedrodutra4088 10 ай бұрын
One thing about potatoes: they from the Andes, native from South America. So when you talk about how potatoes saved your country from famine or a national dish is made of them, remember that indigenous people are the ones responsible for that.
@MVPhurricane
@MVPhurricane 9 ай бұрын
@@pedrodutra4088 nah it's probably the potatoes that are responsible for that
@pedrodutra4088
@pedrodutra4088 9 ай бұрын
Yeah no because it was introduced too europeans by the natives. otherwise they wouldn't be eating it. so @@MVPhurricane
@SwitchFeathers
@SwitchFeathers 10 ай бұрын
My favorite story about potatoe farming is when Frederick II of Prussia really wanted to get his people to start planting and eating them (for all the reasons listed in this video, he knew they would be a great crop). At first the Prussians didn't want anything to do with potatoes, but ol Freddy Two figured out that if he planted a bunch of potatoes on "royal gardens" and posted guards around them at all times, it would make the potatoes _seem_ more valuable and special. He even made sure to instruct the guards to be lazy and let anybody they caught stealing potatoes go with a simple warning, and spread word of how easy it was to steal these fantastic new "royal potatoes". It worked brilliantly, and within a few years Prussia was using potatoes as a primary food crop.
@puellanivis
@puellanivis 10 ай бұрын
Jetzt essen wir mehr Kartoffel als auch Schwein!
@wwoods66
@wwoods66 10 ай бұрын
Maybe. "[French potato enthusiast Antoine-Augustin Parmentier] gave bouquets of potato blossoms to the king and queen, and surrounded his potato patch at Sablons with armed guards during the day to suggest valuable goods, withdrawing them at night so people could steal the potatoes (the same story exists in Germany about Frederick the Great)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier
@puellanivis
@puellanivis 10 ай бұрын
@@wwoods66 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffelbefehl Considering Friedrich II of Prussia also has his gravestone decorated by visitors with potatoes to this day?
@PinHeadSupliciumwtf
@PinHeadSupliciumwtf 10 ай бұрын
​@@wwoods66the first (known) potato order issued by Friedrich was in 1746 when Parmentier was 9 years old.
@RamadaArtist
@RamadaArtist 10 ай бұрын
@@puellanivis I mean, historical figures often get associated with apocryphal stories, even during their own lifetimes.
@c.maygarcia7152
@c.maygarcia7152 9 ай бұрын
The potato is Peru's gift to the world... along with tomatoes, peanuts, sweet potato, quinoa, and many more. When I traveled there last year, I was amazed by the sheer variety of potatoes they had (about 4000 different types). No wonder they include it in almost every meal.
@petterbossum4716
@petterbossum4716 10 ай бұрын
Norwegian here. As potatoes were introduced there was something called "potato priests". Priests who had learned about the value of the potato for feeding the people. Some of them spent a lot of time preaching about the potato from the pulpit, as the priest was one of the few educated people around. Thus potato priests.
@Snailman3516
@Snailman3516 10 ай бұрын
What's fascinating about potatoes is that the andean people, the original cultivators of potatoes, made a huge number of varietals for growing at different altitudes since they grew them in terraced mountains.
@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap
@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap 10 ай бұрын
And they kind of freeze dry them in cold dry night to keep them for longer, a decade is possible if properly kept. Its called a Chuño then and what helped the Inca Empire stretch 2500 miles.
@fuckinghell1501
@fuckinghell1501 10 ай бұрын
I need to throw a dinner party for 6 people who are vegetarian. Can you suggest a 3-course menu with a chocolate dessert?
@hxhdfjifzirstc894
@hxhdfjifzirstc894 10 ай бұрын
@@fuckinghell1501 Order a few vegetarian pizzas and make some instant chocolate pudding. Job done.
@krono5el
@krono5el 10 ай бұрын
oh no did the europeans destroy them all like they did with all the other different types of Maize?
@Ru77ian
@Ru77ian 10 ай бұрын
@@fuckinghell1501find a better group to host a dinner party for
@ohoiko
@ohoiko 10 ай бұрын
I grew up in Northwestern Ukraine, relatively close to the Belarus (which is also stereotypically known as potato country), and I think 60-70% of my childhood ration was some sort of potato meals. Almost every family in our town had "gorod" - small patch of farmland 0.3 to 1 acre near their house or outside the urban area. "Chernozem" or black soil here is a very fertile soil, and even small amount of land yielded very high harvest of potatoes and was enough to feed a family of 5 in my case. Ukraine is known for its wheat and that's good for commercial production scale, when you need to mill it, create a dough and create bread. But for families the ability to pick your potatoes from the ground, wash it and just cook it is like a convenient endless food source.
@legoushque3334
@legoushque3334 10 ай бұрын
you missed an "o" in your "ogorod"
@ohoiko
@ohoiko 10 ай бұрын
@@legoushque3334 In ukrainian language it's "gorod"🙂
@legoushque3334
@legoushque3334 10 ай бұрын
Really? My bad. I think I've heard ukrainian people refer to city/town as "gorod" and to backyard farm piece as "ogorod" while talking in ukrainian. I guess it was surzhik then. I hope that someday the war would be over. If not for Ptn's ambitions it would've never started @@ohoiko
@flamingpi2245
@flamingpi2245 10 ай бұрын
the potato blight wasn't all because the irish were too shortsighted to forsee a blight. English land barons and nobility stole crops, stole acres of fertile land for beef production, and overall drained ireland. They had to resort to potatoes because the english were taking literally everything else
@dissimilar5
@dissimilar5 10 ай бұрын
The potato blight actually went through large swaths of Europe at the time, but Ireland was the only one that experienced a famine. Due to the system of sharecropping, the export of food out of Ireland during the blight, and many other factors, some historians actually consider the Great Famine to be an attempted genocide.
@Adderkleet
@Adderkleet 10 ай бұрын
At no point does Adam call (or imply) that we were short-sighted. He calls it "a bad idea" which is was - but poverty and destitution will result in bad ideas being the only option for survival.
@janetmackinnon3411
@janetmackinnon3411 10 ай бұрын
@@dissimilar5Scotland suffered as well
@krankarvolund7771
@krankarvolund7771 10 ай бұрын
@@Adderkleet The problem with calling it a bad idea, is that it imply they chose to do it. They didn't chose to do it, they were forced to do it ^^'
@channelname4331
@channelname4331 10 ай бұрын
@@janetmackinnon3411 not as much as ireland. England actually helped yall
@sophiaweng6685
@sophiaweng6685 10 ай бұрын
The potato did have a population effect in East Asia! Particularly China, where a lot of population growth happened in the mountainous regions of Fujian province because the Hakka people (a minority group in China) were pushed out of areas where rice was viable in the late 1600s and turned to growing the newly introduced sweet potatoes and potatoes instead of rice. (from the book Pacific Journeys, chapter "lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice").
@guymontag2948
@guymontag2948 10 ай бұрын
The first potatoes I grew were from grocery store potatoes. They were soft and wrinkly enough to be inedible but it was the right time of year, so I buried them, leading to 3 very productive generations of potatoes until I no longer had a garden. They weren't even my potatoes. My mom gave me the food out of her fridge when she went on a trip, which is how they ended up getting forgotten about for that long. Happy accident.
@applegal3058
@applegal3058 10 ай бұрын
Haha, nothing better than free potatoes that keep on giving! I planted store-bought potatoes this spring too. The plants are big and I can't wait until they die back and I can dig up my reward! Only problem is, store-bought potatoes aren't guaranteed to be disease free, like seed potatoes. I'm not so concerned, since if by chance I get issues, I just won't plant potatoes in that plot for a few years. My store-bought potatoes were probably last-year's harvest, since they almost immediately started to sprout after I bought them. We can't plant here in Newfoundland until late May, early June due to frost and snow risks.
@mbedj1974
@mbedj1974 10 ай бұрын
There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents
@BatCaveOz
@BatCaveOz 10 ай бұрын
Your Mom keeps potatoes in the fridge?
@applegal3058
@applegal3058 10 ай бұрын
@@mbedj1974 love Bob Ross! He's an absolute gem 💎
@Theorimlig
@Theorimlig 10 ай бұрын
@@BatCaveOz I'd consider that normal. They do last longer and are less prone to sprouting if kept a long time. The only downside is that they're cold when you peel them.
@HarithBK
@HarithBK 10 ай бұрын
there is a older saying from my part of sweden when you ask "what's for dinner?" you respond with "food and potatoes" this is due to the fact farmers had potatoes with every meal no matter what. i remember as a kid we were invited to my great grandmas sister and that side of the family was making meat sauce and spaghetti and my great grandmas sister wanted to boil some potatoes. it didn't matter if there was pasta you had the meal you were eating and along with that you had potatoes. to me it says a lot about how key the calories potatoes provide was to grow population.
@sebastianboredal7486
@sebastianboredal7486 10 ай бұрын
When i was little we had my grandparents over for pizza, which they had never had before. They got completely bewildered by the lack of potatoes on the table. "Mat och potäter" indeed.
@infamoussphere7228
@infamoussphere7228 10 ай бұрын
my wife's relatives in Finnish Lapland apparently considered no meal complete unless it included potatoes. Even if it had bread/rice/pasta etc. No potatoes - no meal.
@secondengineer9814
@secondengineer9814 10 ай бұрын
Ah yes, Swedish administrative data. The jewel of all sociological research
@MajoraZ
@MajoraZ 10 ай бұрын
I really wish there was at least some mention of the Potatoes usage by the Andean civilizations that originally domesticated it here. I get that the video's main thesis is the impact the Potato had on global population growth outside of the Americas, but so often people consider the Precolumbian Americas an afterthought or not an important part of history in it's own right, and just as the potato enabled increasing urbanization in Eurasia, it enabled the growth of urban city-states and empires in South America too. Not just the Inca, but dozens of major civilizations before them, like Chavin and Moche states, the Wari Empire and kingdom of Tiwanku, the Sican civilization and Chimor Kingdom, etc.
@jasonreed7522
@jasonreed7522 10 ай бұрын
The crops domesticated by the precolumbian Americans are some of the best we have today. Potatoes are insane in terms of calories per acre harvested, and they have way more micros than they normally get credit for. Potatoes and Maize can be stored for very long time periods without issue. The Andeans even developed a way to freezedry their taters and store them in bunkers indefinitely, which provided unrivaled food storage & security. (Unfortunately for them, the conquistadors used these stores to feed their invading armies) And to top it off most people would agree that Potatoes, Maize, Tomatoes, Chocolate, ect are absolutely delicious and its hard to imagine our favorite foods without these crops. (Admittedly the US gov heavily subsidizes corn farming so its in a lot of processed foods, even if only as corn syrup for sugar)
@krankarvolund7771
@krankarvolund7771 10 ай бұрын
@@jasonreed7522 Some More News just made a video about american food system, the first third is about corn, and my God is it everywhere. Like if you count corn syrup as food, 5% of the maize produced in the USA are used for food. The rest is used for all sorts of things, from plastic, to gas, fibers, etc... The US are mad with corn XD But yeah, the Americas had the best plants, and Eurasia had the best animals pre-discovery ^^
@KarlosEPM
@KarlosEPM 10 ай бұрын
The same thing happens with chocolate, avocado, tomatoes, peppers, pineapples... It still is a Eurocentric world, love it or hate it.
@danielblank9917
@danielblank9917 10 ай бұрын
@@KarlosEPM And COFFEE
@KarlosEPM
@KarlosEPM 10 ай бұрын
@@danielblank9917 Although coffee is currently a big part of LatAms exports, it originated in the arabic peninsula if I'm not mistaken. _Yerba mate_ is originally from South America though, and is often overlooked by the rest of the world as a powerful stimulant. Germans do love it though.
@sunnyoo4
@sunnyoo4 10 ай бұрын
Speaking of the potato's impact in East Asia: North Korean propaganda, starting in the mid-late '90s due to widespread famine, began to advocate planting and eating potatoes (a non-traditional dish in Korea) due to the very same benefits that Adam talks about. There is even a propaganda song called "Potato Pride" (감자자랑) to convince citizens to grow and eat potatoes. The country has been facing food pressures due to Covid and a spate of natural disasters that have destroyed crops, so observers have again seen an increase in potato propaganda.
@boulderbash19700209
@boulderbash19700209 10 ай бұрын
Propaganda from Chief Potatohead Kim. 😅
@zetrolll
@zetrolll 10 ай бұрын
Surprising how little mention of Peru there's on the video despite the fact that potatoes were domesticated in the peruvian Andes and here we have the largest variety of potatoes in the world.
@pandora881
@pandora881 10 ай бұрын
It’s unfortunately very typical.
@nopenonein
@nopenonein 10 ай бұрын
Adam only relies on the Internet and the US for his research.
@nicholasbrown5572
@nicholasbrown5572 10 ай бұрын
He's covered it in an episode of his podcast. He probably just didn't want to cover the same story twice
@KarlosEPM
@KarlosEPM 10 ай бұрын
​​@@nicholasbrown5572Could you tell me which # of podcast? Honestly, they are too long for me to watch regularly.
@nicholasbrown5572
@nicholasbrown5572 10 ай бұрын
@@KarlosEPM I believe it's episode 29, but I don't have the time right now to give it a relisten to double check
@cinemaocd1752
@cinemaocd1752 10 ай бұрын
I loved this title so much. There was a book written in the 90s called Indian Givers that was about under recognized contributions by Native Americans and they talked about how Machu Piccu was probably an ag station that was used to breed a huge variety of potatoes. The empire had a huge variety of territory it needed to feed and the potato could be bred to work in all of it. The potato was brought to Europe, where at first it was used to feed animals like many other root crops. I think that's why potatoes are associated with poverty in Europe in the 19th century. I lived in Ireland for a winter and my housemates would easily eat a 5 pound bag in a single meal between like three people. They still love their spuds there. It helped that governement kicked in with a butter allowance for anyone on the dole. You could go to the post office and pick up a couple pounds of fresh irish butter. I really loved that potato heavy diet and I lost so much weight (probably because our house didn't have central heating and I burned a lot of calories keeping warm) despite all the carbs.
@calvinouellette4545
@calvinouellette4545 10 ай бұрын
Anyone on the dole?
@amberallen7809
@amberallen7809 10 ай бұрын
​@@calvinouellette4545unemployment
@sid6645
@sid6645 10 ай бұрын
Thats a fascinating story!
@lmpeters
@lmpeters 10 ай бұрын
I've heard that lots of older Irish homes are still poorly insulated and heated with a single peat-burning hearth, so it would make sense that they'd burn lots of extra calories just to stay warm.
@Default78334
@Default78334 10 ай бұрын
Speaking of the Irish: potatoes, dairy, and a green (maybe kale or cabbage) and you have all the ingredients to make colcannon which was a good portion of the diet of Irish peasants. Edit: also the surname "Qian" is a single syllable and the "Qi" is pronounced more like a "Ch".
@fluidthought42
@fluidthought42 10 ай бұрын
Ah, so it's pronounced like "Chan", understood.
@Veepee92
@Veepee92 10 ай бұрын
​@fluidthought42 If "Chan" is a surname, in which case it's a Cantonese surname, then roughly yes. Not exactly one-to-one, but close enough. The matching Mandarin surname "Chen" - both are 陈 - is pronounced quite differently.
@olop-ln7ot
@olop-ln7ot 10 ай бұрын
@@fluidthought42 It's a bit more like chian
@TreebeardTheEnt
@TreebeardTheEnt 10 ай бұрын
Diphthong
@Default78334
@Default78334 10 ай бұрын
The "a" in Qian is pronounced that the "a" in "rat" or "bat", while the "a" in Chan is pronounced like the a in "wall" or "call" (at least as those words are pronounced in most American topolects).
@aaronb1195
@aaronb1195 10 ай бұрын
Once, I talked to a farmer who grew potatoes in the Columbia basin in Washington. Apparently, different diseases are so prevalent there that he can only grow potatoes on the same land once every 6 or 7 years. Potatoes were by far his most profitable crop, but rotating them any more frequently than that and he would lose too much to disease. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's the same on the Snake River Plain in Idaho, which is basically adjacent and has a similar climate.
@BatCaveOz
@BatCaveOz 10 ай бұрын
The Irish proved that one could live an entire lifetime on a diet consisting of potatoes and milk (and little else). A popular Irish cattle breed was the Dexter, a miniature cow used primarily for milk, that suited the small plots available to the Irish at the time.
@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap
@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap 10 ай бұрын
Potatoes and butter. Milk doesn't last very long and you'd find it hard to get a cow to produce milk if the weathers too cold or they've too little feed but with butter you get the fats and nutrients you'd need to make the potato work though an Irish winter (November / December until February/March depending on your location), winter here is usually quite mild but it can get wet, too wet to allow a 800~1200 pound animal wander around a soaking wet field. It would have also probably been heavily salted butter too.
@nopenonein
@nopenonein 10 ай бұрын
I read a article on what is the single food you can survive on indefinitely. Well it started with potatoes but that was missing a few essential nutrients. So Barley and a little bit of Kale solved those deficiencies. I heard that, that is the ancient Scottish diet?
@RemnantCult
@RemnantCult 10 ай бұрын
Your integration of food science and food history makes for great videos.
@dogvom
@dogvom 10 ай бұрын
3:11 I think it's interesting that the area in South America most suited to potato farming is _not_ the part of the continent where they were first cultivated, that is, the Peruvian Andes! And according to this map, Idaho is not prime potato territory at all, yet that's pretty well all they're known for!
@Maplenr
@Maplenr 10 ай бұрын
Oddly one of my favorite videos you've ever done. I love weird, quirky topics like this
@Zarathinius
@Zarathinius 10 ай бұрын
A bitter fact of the potato blight is that the Irish tenant farmers definitely knew how and did grow lots of different crops, including other potato varietals. Because their British landlords kept sub-dividing their holdings and renting smaller and smaller plots to the Irish subjects, the Irish peasants had to grow the most nutritious potato they could on the worst parts of their land. Any land that was good enough for less hardy crops had to be planted to pay the rent. If the colonizing British had been willing to ease off on their rent extraction a bit, a lot of death could have been prevented. It's far too much history for a short weekly video about spuds, but worth reading about for anyone who (like me) got a minimalist American public school version of the history.
@jasonreed7522
@jasonreed7522 10 ай бұрын
American education system: the Irish only planted taters and then had a famine cause of a blight _implies that they were idiots_. Reality: Ireland was a food exporter during the famine and was growing enough to feed its population, the British were just colonial assholes creating an artificial famine. I get that the system has a limited timeframe in which to convey information, but its not like presenting the story properly would even take any additional time/resources. (Alternatively we could not spend each year covering all of history again in slightly greater depth and dedicate more time on each major region & time period, trusting that kids will remember the war of 1812 happened if they don't learn about it every single year)
@Zarathinius
@Zarathinius 10 ай бұрын
@@jasonreed7522 Totally agree, one lecture explaining the reality of Irish agriculture and rent extraction by British colonizers would be a lot more valuable than some of the stuff we learned.
@neutralnarwhal8184
@neutralnarwhal8184 10 ай бұрын
I feel like you're kind of underselling how much of a role Britain itself played in the famine in Ireland... In some ways similar to the role they played in the famine in India.
@jasonreed7522
@jasonreed7522 10 ай бұрын
Britain is solely responsible for the famine, Ireland was a net food exporter during the famine, its just most of Ireland's arable land was dedicated to cash crops & animals to sell to the British, and all the remaining land had to be the world's best food crop: 1 potato cultivar.
@Zyme86
@Zyme86 10 ай бұрын
The potato didn't really go east, but the Sweet Potato sure as heck did. I wonder if that crop's effects were similar to potatoes in regions it became favorited.
@NCRonrad
@NCRonrad 10 ай бұрын
Short answer, yes (and potatoes are imperative with Indian food)
@captainbigos9267
@captainbigos9267 10 ай бұрын
Potatoes are the king of vegetables. So many things you can make with them. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.... Chips, fries, wedges, fritters, vodka, baked, jacket, roast, hashbrowns, bury in hot coals just off the top of my head. So many possibilities.
@iooooooo1
@iooooooo1 10 ай бұрын
I really appreciate that you cited sources in the description, thanks.
@Beryllahawk
@Beryllahawk 10 ай бұрын
Fun fact!! Here in the American Southeast, you're supposed to plant potatoes on Valentine's Day! (Along with MANY other things, including tomatoes if you're starting from seed.) And even in urban back yards they will grow just fine, because they just about don't give a damn what your soil is like so long as they have adequate drainage. A fantastic food plant, along with squash and green beans. (Corn is a maybe, tomatoes are finicky in my experience.) Potatoes are amazing.
@SupersonicAardvark
@SupersonicAardvark 10 ай бұрын
Love the humming of the cicadas as part of the audio. Gave a dollop of good vibes on top of all the potato facts.
@parispc
@parispc 10 ай бұрын
Nothing hits like a hearty baked potato on a cold evening. Definitely my favorite starch pairing with meats and veggies.
@mattwilson8298
@mattwilson8298 10 ай бұрын
I live in Tennessee too. The cicadas are so loud. Kudos to you for shooting a video outside, at this time of year, with audio i can actually hear.
@molseren
@molseren 10 ай бұрын
"The Tale of the Wonderful Potato" is a must see in danish primary school culinary class!
@orchinus8165
@orchinus8165 10 ай бұрын
Very true
@JohnHausser
@JohnHausser 10 ай бұрын
“We must take our potatoes both big and small, and likewise we must accept everyone equally” - 🇮🇪 proverb
@liamblood5239
@liamblood5239 10 ай бұрын
And yet Ireland is slowly becoming more and more unwelcoming to others. It's sad to see but the things you hear and see while just walking around is awful. Let alone the tales I hear from those not from Ireland who live here.
@hxhdfjifzirstc894
@hxhdfjifzirstc894 10 ай бұрын
You actually should not 'accept' bad people equally, or your society will devolve into evil. Look at all of the crime in blue cities, for example.
@rohan1_
@rohan1_ 10 ай бұрын
The most common newborn boys name in Cork last year was Mohammed but sure the Irish are sooo unwelcoming.@@liamblood5239
@MaximusChivus
@MaximusChivus 10 ай бұрын
​@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Ah yes, like how Austin has such a high crime rate compared to Houston. There's more factors than red good blue bad, like wealth issues and population density. There's even more factors than that but I don't have an eternity to comment.
@MaximusChivus
@MaximusChivus 10 ай бұрын
​@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Also, weird choice to equate notably uninfected and perfectly edible potatoes of different sizes to mean "we should accept all criminals" rather than accepting people of all shapes and sizes
@PotatoMcWhiskey
@PotatoMcWhiskey 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your recognition Adam, the hive mind will spare you for your service.
@davidmusserYouTube
@davidmusserYouTube 10 ай бұрын
Classic Adam video!! Keep ‘em coming
@jandillingh
@jandillingh 10 ай бұрын
as a fellow gardener, my complements, on the quality of your soil Adam. it looks really excellent.
@cuttwice3905
@cuttwice3905 10 ай бұрын
The best thing about buying seed potatoes is that you can pick varieties you have never enjoyed before. So many kinds, so little time. I have turned into my local sibling's allium, potato, etc. source because I like growing root crops. The also get dried and canned and pickled veggies with an occasional dried or preserved fruit. As hobbies go it is inexpensive.
@PossiblyAnIrishGuy
@PossiblyAnIrishGuy 10 ай бұрын
An Irish dilemma from an Irish guy "Do I eat the potato now or do I leave it to ferment and drink it as poitín (potato moonshine essentially) later?"
@Craxin01
@Craxin01 10 ай бұрын
My favorite bit of Swedish cooking is potatiskorv, or potato sausage. It's ground pork and potato with spices stuffed into a natural casing and boiled. You scrape the insides out of the casing and eat. Also, considering growing supermarket potatoes, I did that once entirely by accident. I had a pit I'd put kitchen scraps in for mulching and got a volunteer crop out of potato skins I buried.
@thecrazyinsanity
@thecrazyinsanity 10 ай бұрын
swedish food is fake
@ladyofthemasque
@ladyofthemasque 10 ай бұрын
The thing most people still don't know about the Irish Potato Famine is that Ireland had LOTS of food growing all over the island. They were SURROUNDED by it. The problem was, the English had invaded & colonized Ireland, taking over virtually all the land. That meant the Irish still living there were turned into tenant farmers, and almost all the crops grown were shipped to England. One of the few agricultural products the Irish were allowed to grow AND EAT was the potato. Unfortunately, in many cases, the tenant farmers weren't allowed to rotate their potato crops onto "better soil"...which meant that, year after year, the enemies of potatoes (pests, diseases, soil depletion) mounted higher and higher, until the potato blight struck...and struck...and struck. SURROUNDED BY FOOD, the Irish were being forced to starved to death, because it was considered a heavily punishable CRIME by their English landowners for them to EAT the vast majority of the food they were growing. This is just one of many, many atrocities in history that we aren't taught...because it makes certain groups of white folks "look bad." (Hint: they WERE bad! And yes, I'm lily-white myself, but I can acknowledge when bad things were done, & are still being done.) ...Remember, if you want to do gardening, different plants take different nutrients from the soil, and give back certain other different nutrients. Crop rotation serves two main purposes: It allows the soil to replenish, and it *weakens* various pests & diseases, because their favorite food gets moved far away so they starve. Ideally you shouldn't plant the same crop in the same location year after year, or even within 2 years. Wait at least 3 years, ideally 4+ years. You should also alternate root crops, legumes & pulses, grains, pollinator crops, leafy greens, other nitrogen-fixer crops (such as clover), and so forth. Mulching is also very important, as it allows those dead plants to decay and return their remaining nutrients to the soil. Companion planting is also a great idea (think the Three Sisters of corn, beans, and squashes), and planting pollinator "crops" (ooh, pretty flowers!) that bloom at *different* times of the year also helps immensely, as that helps sustain pollinator populations.
@Oz_Headwinged
@Oz_Headwinged 9 ай бұрын
I just started cooking gymnasium in Sweden and I need to go through the history of the potato, thought you'd have some good info and I was right. Not only that but it was just lucky that you talked about my country too, great video. I'll use it as one of my sources.
@dukelornek
@dukelornek 10 ай бұрын
Not the first time I have heard this but still good. I'd love to hear more indepth version of this.
@doubla871
@doubla871 10 ай бұрын
I always love your ad transitions lol
@lynb87
@lynb87 9 ай бұрын
Great video! I think you could make a longer one. Somehow i didn't know they're a complete protein.
@cindyhammond5573
@cindyhammond5573 10 ай бұрын
Love the subtle bibliography - and the mosquito bite-LOL
@michael2636
@michael2636 10 ай бұрын
4:06 this is why i absolutely hate ticket retailers. $89 in fees is over 30% of the advertised ticket price of $281
@yuiro1419
@yuiro1419 10 ай бұрын
Great Video about food history! also great sponsor plug!
@davidhenriquegravanita2658
@davidhenriquegravanita2658 10 ай бұрын
Very much here for econ history adam ragusea. keep it up!
@microwaveoven2
@microwaveoven2 10 ай бұрын
Bro, your video's have taught me so much, I mean I already knew all this stuff anyway.
@michaeldufresne9428
@michaeldufresne9428 10 ай бұрын
I have recently been looking into potato growing recently and one thing I have seen multiple times is that you shouldn't wash off the potatoes if you are going to store them. It removes some type of protective covering on them causing them not to store as well as. Found it out it appears to be true with the first batch I grew.
@dfhgjhg
@dfhgjhg 10 ай бұрын
Same is true for everything, like squash and pumpkin. seems even rain washes it away, collected some in the rain and its losing the firmness in few days.
@jades3654
@jades3654 10 ай бұрын
Im growing potatoes for the first time tis year! This video is so well timed!
@Corazair
@Corazair 10 ай бұрын
Funny timing to talk about the fact that potatoes grow underground considering the rare tornado landing just a couple days ago. Might be closer to home for me since I've about a mile away from Lovell Crossing though.
@Mote.
@Mote. 10 ай бұрын
I love your videos so much. Amazing information
@crustybs46
@crustybs46 10 ай бұрын
I'd love to have an episode on different storage methods back in the day of all the different veggies that we eat today
@alard8503
@alard8503 10 ай бұрын
Potatoes are just really fun to learn about, there is so much to them.
@0000willhill
@0000willhill 9 ай бұрын
Adam you`re so good at explaining things!
@cn15557
@cn15557 10 ай бұрын
It's always delightful to see how Adam will work his sponsor segue into the video 😂
@DrDjones
@DrDjones 10 ай бұрын
Gosh, so much water used to wash them around 1 min. Thanks for the informational video. I look forward to planting some potatoes myself.
@hugoa.c.1566
@hugoa.c.1566 10 ай бұрын
I Love a quick interesting video like this every once in a while
@barryhaley7430
@barryhaley7430 4 ай бұрын
This guy produces great content! I always enjoy!
@alexhurst3986
@alexhurst3986 10 ай бұрын
I love your videos, but this is my fav. Not because of the potatoes, but the cicada's in the background. That sound reminds me of home.
@TumblinWeeds
@TumblinWeeds 10 ай бұрын
5:14 the highlighter was so squiggly my brain dissociated from the crime scene 😂😂
@hgv85
@hgv85 10 ай бұрын
You should consider doing a follow-up video on the variety of root vegetables that are native to the Americas. Most North Americans would only recognize a few.
@KarlosEPM
@KarlosEPM 10 ай бұрын
Therefore, most north americans will not watch. This channel is a financial enterprise after all. Such a video is unlikely to appear in this channel.
@krono5el
@krono5el 10 ай бұрын
@@KarlosEPM Most europeans in the Americas dont even know potatoes and tomatoes are Indigenous to the Americas.
@hgv85
@hgv85 9 ай бұрын
@@KarlosEPM I can see why you would think that. I know several people my parents’ age who don’t like to travel or try new restaurants because they don’t like new or unknown things. They want to go to the MacDonalds a few blocks from their house and that’s it. However, I think the kind of people who are likely to watch this channel are not like that. I think they are, instead, interested in learning about new things. So I think the topic would be a good candidate for this channel. That said, you’re right that it will probably never happen. I just disagree on *why* it won’t happen.
@l.p.7585
@l.p.7585 10 ай бұрын
As an academic and journalist Adam, i would like to see you have a go at explaining famine to the modern person. The modern understanding of famine is built on imagery of medieval peasants with barren dry fields, but the world has never been too small for economic policy to help solve local shortages, and history is full of accounts where famines were caused by trade, taxation, labour, and migration policy, without being related to crop yields at all.
@jeannamcgregor9967
@jeannamcgregor9967 10 ай бұрын
I'm doing an experiment here in NorCal and always keeping 8 grow bags planted in succession with potatoes (if they sprout in storage they get planted). We don't get a hard frost here and maybe I'll never have to buy potatoes again. 🤞
@graefx
@graefx 10 ай бұрын
I've been watching a lot about forest gardening and methods to maximize food production using vertical space and some sort of potato or tuber as ground cover is near ubiquitous. Some varieties you can even eat the leaves like sweet potatoes. Between potatoes and mushrooms you can have a complete amino acid complex and all the calories you need. Potatoes only become an issue from frying and all the other stuff we put on them
@LaineyBug2020
@LaineyBug2020 10 ай бұрын
On every potato stock, you can graft a nightshade plant to and grow in the same spot. Nightshades are a very diverse and nutrient dense family of plants from tomatoes to sweet peppers to eggplants to gooseberries.
@purple-flowers
@purple-flowers 10 ай бұрын
Nightshade stew is cool! You can make a whole stew out of just nightshade plants. Also tobacco is a nightshade
@MariaMartinez-researcher
@MariaMartinez-researcher 10 ай бұрын
Pomato.
@ivy_47
@ivy_47 10 ай бұрын
@@purple-flowers That's a certified CodysLab classic.
@Theorimlig
@Theorimlig 10 ай бұрын
Not gooseberries, but "cape gooseberries" (Physalis species, also called groundcherries). The original gooseberries are from an unrelated bush.
@cerealfish9037
@cerealfish9037 10 ай бұрын
Gooseberries aren’t nightshades, they’re related to currants
@fortissimolaud
@fortissimolaud 10 ай бұрын
“The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.”
@joshgalka9414
@joshgalka9414 10 ай бұрын
Great video, Adam!
@Vuhhin
@Vuhhin 10 ай бұрын
I love these types of Video!!!!
@Furluge
@Furluge 10 ай бұрын
I am reminded of a fantasy series where a character is in a Medieval fantasy setting but gains access to a magic library and they're able to read books from other worlds and this leads them to trying to advance the world they are in. First thing they introduced? Potatoes. You can't really do a whole lot of advancement until the food supply is stable. It also help drop the incentives for war.
@hithere5553
@hithere5553 10 ай бұрын
While I know sweet potatoes aren’t related to potatoes I can’t recommend them enough for raised bed gardeners. They are SHOCKINGLY prolific here on the east coast and don’t require really any maintenance other than the occasional watering, and you can fill an entire bed with one sweet potato with slips.
@krabkit
@krabkit 10 ай бұрын
several years back we had a bag or 2 of fingerling potatoes that got spilled in the back yard but failed to be cleaned up because worst case, more potatoes. we kept the yard reasonably well kept so i figured they had died, if they had done anything at all. recently we were moving house and the yard was left to grow for the most part and i noticed that we had nightshades in a far wider section than the original spill. i did not get a chance to dig any of them up before we left, but i cant think of anything else they would have been.
@voltaireon
@voltaireon 10 ай бұрын
Your ad transitions get me every time. ☠️
@gaboversta2.423
@gaboversta2.423 10 ай бұрын
1:24 "but you can live on mostly potatoes" Good, that's what I've been doing this past year, so easy to cook. (I'll admit that there is also some self made bread in my kitchen… )
@ThePerfectKiosk
@ThePerfectKiosk 10 ай бұрын
I love the hilighter presentation.
@Ace_of_Empires
@Ace_of_Empires 10 ай бұрын
I like these educational videos more than the recipes
@lettuce1626
@lettuce1626 10 ай бұрын
Its prob best to start with seed potato but the fact that grocery store potatoes sprout by accident was the reason I got into gardening
@jasonrodriguez3618
@jasonrodriguez3618 10 ай бұрын
This feels like great timing. I’m in Ireland tomorrow
@veloarc3321
@veloarc3321 10 ай бұрын
Love hearing the cicadas in the background. Fellow eastern TN viewer here 👋
@ThaKKatt
@ThaKKatt 4 ай бұрын
in 2013 I gave a speech my senior year of high school about potatoes, to a standing ovation from my classmates hahahaha, proudest moment for sure
@jots083
@jots083 10 ай бұрын
Potatoes, Onions, and garlic. the three easiest food products to grow at home and they can be cooked into or with just about anything!
@GreenWizardBaking
@GreenWizardBaking 10 ай бұрын
I just harvested my first potatoes ever today! How serendipitous!
@Mojova1
@Mojova1 10 ай бұрын
It is funny how today the best tasting potatoes in the world are the new potatoes from Sweden and Finland, because of the almost constant sunlight during the summer. Adam, if you ever have a chance to taste a new potato from Sweden or Finland please try it.
@ibb1087
@ibb1087 10 ай бұрын
Hi! This looks so great! Can you please provide the list of ingredients for the Potato Salad at 3:10. I got all the ingredients except for the last bottle you add in after the mustard! If anyone has this information we would love to try this recipe exactly as shown! Thank you so much!
@janlaan9602
@janlaan9602 10 ай бұрын
Well you can live off just potatoes for longer then most people expect, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his life’s mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute. Also when mentioning the Irish potato famine please never leave out that the English CHOSE to let them starve and withhold food. It was a genocide.
@Rob9
@Rob9 10 ай бұрын
Swedish Grandpas in 1700: "Back in my day we didn't HAVE potatoes"
@mukkaar
@mukkaar 10 ай бұрын
I have to start eating more potatoes. And if I get big backyard at some point, I'm definitely growing some.
@irvingdog01
@irvingdog01 10 ай бұрын
Wasn’t Ireland forced by England to grow a specific strain of potato somehow, and this lead to a blight that easily ran down this specific crop?
@jeffcantor3298
@jeffcantor3298 10 ай бұрын
Love those bright purple spuds!
@TisiphoneSeraph
@TisiphoneSeraph 10 ай бұрын
Surprised you didn't touch on solanine issues - especially with blight and storage. Since it was a known issue with other members of the nightshade family, that was another reason people were cautious about taking them up as a staple crop. They had to think it was worth the risk.
@YoungGandalf2325
@YoungGandalf2325 10 ай бұрын
Most KZbinrs would just overlay text on top of the video. I like how Adam uses printed out research papers and a highlighter (even if it is difficult to read).
@sabatino1977
@sabatino1977 10 ай бұрын
you"tubers"?? :)
@YoungGandalf2325
@YoungGandalf2325 10 ай бұрын
@@sabatino1977 good one! 😆
@armanke13
@armanke13 10 ай бұрын
yea, johnny harris style, 😃
@FutureCommentary1
@FutureCommentary1 10 ай бұрын
Ad transition was sleek.
@SacredDaturana
@SacredDaturana 10 ай бұрын
6:22 Not really related to the content but I appreciate that you clearly took the effort to learn the correct pronunciation of "Qian". Most English speakers naturally default to pronouncing it (incorrectly) with a hard K, like with "Queen".
@armanke13
@armanke13 10 ай бұрын
one of the smoothest segue, so cool 😅
@stephenshoshin3190
@stephenshoshin3190 10 ай бұрын
Fascinating! If you get an opportunity, find Ruth Stout's methodology for planting and growing potatoes.
@skybluskyblueify
@skybluskyblueify 10 ай бұрын
The book called: _Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent_ is perfect way to read about the history of the effects of potatoes from the first domestication to some the very recent adoptions like New Zealand. The author is John Reader.
@axem.8338
@axem.8338 10 ай бұрын
Do one on rice as well. Like these informative videos a lot more.
@deefdragon
@deefdragon 10 ай бұрын
I've liyerally done the math for a college project, and some yams can literally produce enough calories in like 2-3 m3 too feed a single person. (assuming good vertical farming). you could literally have all your calories "in your appartment"
@YounesLayachi
@YounesLayachi 10 ай бұрын
m3 ? Did you mean m^2 ?
@MrTupimus
@MrTupimus 10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi Assuming modern farming practice and the mentioned vertical farming it truly is by volume, unlike the traditional soil farming which is only considered by viable area
@krono5el
@krono5el 10 ай бұрын
the Americas were ahead of the game when it came to agriculture and feeding the women and children, then the church arrived and now there is nothing but poverty all over the Americas.
@YounesLayachi
@YounesLayachi 10 ай бұрын
@@krono5el where did the resources go ? In the pockets of greedy capitalists
@BOUHAMAMA
@BOUHAMAMA 10 ай бұрын
damn his camera quality and lighting is amazing... I wonder how he does it especially outside
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