{"id":2062,"date":"2012-08-14T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2021-08-14T13:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T17:58:59","slug":"famous-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/famous-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve got a National Potato Month (September) and a National Potato Day (August 19), but potatoes, frankly, are interesting (and fun) any time of the year.<\/p>\n

Famous incidents in the life of the potato include Richard Dreyfuss\u2019s mashed-potato sculpture in Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>; Dan Quayle\u2019s career-crushing 1992 misspelling of POTATO(E); the debut (in 1952) of the perennially popular Mr. Potato Head; and the deciphering of the potato genome, which is when we discovered that potatoes have more genes than we do. And, of course, there\u2019s much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rebecca Rupp\u2019s How Carrots Won the Trojan War<\/em> (Storey Publishing, 2011) \u2013 a reader-friendly overview of the history and science of garden vegetables from Asparagus to Turnip \u2013 includes a chapter on potatoes. Learn about Henry VIII\u2019s favorite pie, Marie Antoinette\u2019s potato-blossom hair-do, John Dillinger\u2019s potato-based escape from jail, and the devastating 18th-century Potato War. Intended for adults, but there\u2019s something interesting here for all.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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