@Natasha_Jay some of these look challenging to peel

@Natasha_Jay I finally understand why so many Germans emigrate to Peru.

@Natasha_Jay Want to eat each and every one of those... 🥔⁠🤤

@Natasha_Jay that's my uncle, second from top at the right

@Natasha_Jay Obviously the Irish invented the potato but nice to see the South Americans putting their own spin on it.

@Natasha_Jay fascinating

@Natasha_Jay @aliceroberts in her book Tamed covers potatoes and the immense variety of types. Was particularly amused by the particularly difficult to peel variety that was called, in the native tongue, "the one that makes the daughter in law weep".

@Natasha_Jay Similar in Bolivia.

@Natasha_Jay wäre schön wenn es hier auch diese Auswahl geben würde.

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These are beautiful.
I’d love to try them, to grow & to eat.
Just scrubbed & boiled or steamed to have with butter & black pepper 😋.

@Natasha_Jay ya gotta see this @psneeze

@Natasha_Jay and what of those are the best for make spanish omelettes? 🤔

@Natasha_Jay it would be good to compliment this with the various fries/chips you can fry with them.

@Natasha_Jay that’s really neat

@Natasha_Jay no offense but some of them look like turds :hhHHHAAAH:

@Natasha_Jay I read once that it is very hard to create new potato varieties because they tend to be too high in solanin. 4000 is a feat of agricultural knowledge.

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Thousands and thousands of varieties only from one (ok, large) region of South America.

And yet there was still (at least?) one type of 'tater', that perhaps independently evolved in Middle Earth.

So that Samwise Gamgee could "Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"!

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tottie fiesta!

@Natasha_Jay I should actually live in Peru 😋🥔🥔🥔

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Is it wrong that I immediately thought of the Bristol Stool Chart?

@Natasha_Jay I wish @darth were here...

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@BlatentLie !

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I grow my own vegetables, but as I only have a smallish plot, I try to grow less common varieties that you never see in the shops.
My favourite Potato is Pink Fir apple. Not the most prolific, but tastes marvellous and stores well. Even after 6 months in storage, they still taste like "new" potatoes, firm, slightly nutty flavour.

@Natasha_Jay Now my Irish heart wants to go there and eat a different spud every day for a year

@Natasha_Jay I wonder which ones are good for making Lefsa?

@Natasha_Jay I would like to stress again that this most important crop was not first cultivated by europeans. Other people (*gasp*) achieved this for humanity.

@Natasha_Jay The little black ones I can confirm from personal experience can be dried and buried for later use.

Andean #dwarfBread

@Natasha_Jay Once I planted some "purple peruvians" , in Italy, maybe they did not like the change ? They came out OK but "less purple" ..

@Natasha_Jay so potatoland exists afterall :O

@Natasha_Jay I would love to try them all but my doctor does not allow me to have potatoes. I can have yams, but not potatoes.

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They all look so wonderful! I would love to taste a few, I mean; curly ones? The ones with all the bumps? The one shaped like a brazil nut? All of them beg to be tasted ❤