Man we lucked out with the potato. It genuinely sounds bio-engineered. Here's this hardy plant that grows nigh anywhere, keeps forever and covers like most of your nutritional needs. Also it tastes pretty good.
The potato, and everything else we eat that isn't wild game, is bio-engineered. Have you ever seen a wild cucumber? They're like a cm long.
well yeah but I meant in the modern laboratory sense and not in the historic agriculture sense
The modern, laboratory sense is just a more efficient way of doing exactly what farmers were doing 5,000 years ago. Like all technology, genetic modification isn't inherently good or evil, it's how the people who control the technology use it that matters. Monsanto et al are bad because they're controlled by capital.
you're correct but please let me have my alluding to futuristic gene splicing vegetable/starch thats actually been around forever take here
Oh, aliens definitely used quantum entanglement to send the potato back in time.
ok well some of the shit where you use genes from something else entirely
that wasn't gonna happen in any reasonable timescale the old way
AND IT'S SUPER COOL
Yeah not to mention you can lop the eyes off which u dont eat anyway, chuck em in almost any soil and you get more potato
I've accidentally grown a potato plant that must have been from some animal burying part of one into the soil.
It's funny given the resistance it first had in Europe. It's part of the nightshade family and was largely used as animal feed until the 18th century when it was popularized in large part due to a Frenchman named Parmentier. One story claims he hired guards for his potato fields to create the impression of value, but dismissed then at dusk so peasants could steal them and get hooked on the starchy goodness
Yeah there's a couple people it gets attributed to, Wikipedia mentions Frederick the Great for example
Potatoes are genuinely the greatest vegetable known to mankind.
bro my diet is already 95% potatoes president xi I'm ready to emigrate
imagine if AES states offered right to abode/permanent residency based on potato consumption. i would crush that shit so hard.
I live with someone who lived >40 years in Shanghai before moving to the US, they'll throw potatoes (cut, like into quarters for a small one) into any braised dish to absorb some of the liquid and soften up. Ends up kind of the same texture as in a Western stew, but with some actual salt. Otherwise, just cut into match sticks and stir fried with peppers.
matchsticks! fuck I knew there was a good way to stirfry potatoes
Once they start coming out though I'm gonna be so happy. So many American/Euro recipes for potatoes just cram a shitload of cheese and butter into them and call it a day. Chinese food doesn't usually have dairy in it so these recipes could be fantastic
You should check out Gamja jorim (it's Korean) - it's fried potatoes braised in soy/sesame sauce and they are just :chefs-kiss:
Oh it it - they serve it cold at Korean restaurants and the texture is really kinda awesome (like firm, but not crunchy or anything)
Dope, I'll check it out. From a brief glance it looks like I've already come close to accidentally cooking it before but I included some peanut butter and other minor changes and it was fantastic
Potatoes, beans, lentils, rice, and fresh veggies. Sounds like good food
Three sisters garden set up (beans, squash, corn) with potatoes and some tomatoes plus peppers, bam there's 99.9% of nutrients a human needs just supplement the rest with yeast if needed.
I make a lentil stew that's just lentils potatoes carrots rice broccoli onions peppers and spinach with Bebere (ethiopian) seasoning that is fucking amazing
Nice, I've fallen for doing chickpeas curries with whatever veg I have on had. I love easy make stews and curries for weeknights
Yeah its such good and really healthy food. Also it's pretty cheap on the whole, i think it comes out to about 2.50 per meal which is like 6 or 700 calories
can you link a recipe with like basic proportions if not details? I am a burgeoning stew/curry man.
Check it out. https://www.connoisseurusveg.com/spicy-ethiopian-lentil-stew/
We should give rice and potatoes the Order of Lenin distinction
The Order of Lentils would like a word. :kelly: :cool-bean:
What’s the state of food security in China? As I understand it (which means hearsay at best) they’re relatively food insecure considering their massive population and the projected impact of climate change in that part of the world. Of course China is the only adult in the room and is stockpiling food unlike the US where we only stockpile cheese as a means of subsidizing the industry. Good to see someone being proactive with food planning
I'm gonna laugh so hard when they've stockpiled cheese for a century only to find out 90% of the country is now lactose intolerant
