Believing Resident Blog– Wednesday is Climate Modification, the Atmosphere, and Sustainability Day
Today’s Topic: The Potato– a little history, existing worldwide manufacturing, leading US states, favorite characters
Freshly harvested potatoes taste nothing like store-bought potatoes. Have you ever experienced the distinction? I did a couple of weeks earlier and I chose it is time I created a hymn to the potato. What do you know about the potato that the remainder people possibly don’t however would certainly thrill to discover?
The theme of the day is that the sharper your recognition for the details of the wonders of nature, the richer your life, and the greater the probabilities of long-term varieties survival.
Experts– please chime in. Correct, elaborate, illuminate.
A LITTLE HISTORY– native to the Americas, cultivated range came from southerly Peru/nothwestern Bolivia
1 Wild potato varieties can be discovered from the southern United States to southern Chile. Genetic research studies reveal that the grown potato has a solitary beginning, in the area of present-day southerly Peru and severe northwestern Bolivia.”
2 “Potatoes were domesticated there about 7, 000– 10, 000 years ago from a species in the S.brevicaule complex.”
3 “The Spanish presented the potato in Europe in the second fifty percent of the 16 th century from the Americas.
They are an essential food in many parts of the globe and an important part of much of the world’s globe food supply. Complying with millennia of careful breeding, there are now over 5, 000 various varieties of potatoes.
NB: The potato remains an important crop in Europe, specifically North and Eastern Europe, where per capita manufacturing is still the highest worldwide, while one of the most quick expansion in manufacturing during the 21 st century remained in southerly and eastern Asia, with China and India leading the globe production as of 2023″
EXISTING INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION– China is # 1, India # 2 Ukraine # 3 Russia # 4 United States # 5 (numbers below are from 2022 in tonnes)
1 China– 96 million, India 56 million, Ukraine 21 million
2 Russia– 19 million, United States 18 million, Germany 11 million.
3 Bangladesh 11 million, France 8 million, Pakistan 8 million
NB: Netherlands 6 million, Canada 6 million, Egypt 6 million
United States STATE BY STATE POTATO MANUFACTURING: Idaho # 1, Washington # 2, Oregon # 3 (“in the US, potato manufacturing by state is normally measured in hundredweight (cwt), with one hundredweight amounting to 100 pounds”). Wow odd is that????
1 Idaho: 145 million (cwt), Washington 100 million, Wisconsin 30 million.
2 Oregon, 27 million, North Dakota, 26 million, Michigan, 21 milliion
3 Colorado 21 million, Minnesota 18 millioin, Maine 18 million
FRENCH FRENCH FRIES, SCALLOPED, SMASHED, ROASTED, BOILED, BAKED
1 Decisions are difficult.
2 So is telling the truth.
3 How do you really feel about McDonald’s fries?
NB: Is there anything much better than mashed potatoes with newly baked turkey, gravy, and cranberry sauce? exactly how about a “tortilla española” (potato omelette)?
AFTERTHOUGHT A– an unique prize for the very best AI-generated sonnet on the miracle of the potato
1 Or sonata
2 Or twelve-bar blues
3 Ballad
NB: Symphony
FOOTNOTE B– a sonnet by Google AI– Yikes!
Below the soil, a treasure, brownish and simple,
The simple potato, sustenance so real.
From Andean heights where ancient farmers reigned,
To remote shores, your trip you seek.
As soon as viewed with question, an interested international price,
Then accepted as savior, in times of want and need.
Your durable spirit, supported with such care,
An essential harvest, planting hope’s bright seed.
Whether baked or boiled, or mashed to luscious elegance,
Or carved as chips, an appealing golden color.
You elegance the tables of each time and location,
A beneficial comfort, ever before tried and true.
Oh, simple spud, your power we embrace,
A globe maintained, permanently thanks to you.
Listing of nations by potato production– Wikipedia
History of the potato– Wikipedia
ESTIMATE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Bible. Select and gather all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin– then regularly review, re-rank, and exchange your checklist with those you enjoy. I call this the “Orion Exchange” since 7 is about as many as any type of human can absorb at once. Video game?
A WEB LINK TO THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF ARTICLES ARRANGED BY MOTIF:
PDF with headlines– Google Drive
ATTACHMENT LISTED BELOW:
# 1 A visuals overview to justice (9 metaphors on one web page).
# 2 39 Tunes, Petitions, and Poems: the Keys to the Hearts of 7 Billion People” — Adams House Senior Citizen Common Room Presentation, (11/ 17/ 20
NB: Palestine Orion (Decision)– let’s exchange Orions, let’s discover Rumi’s area (“Beyond all ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. Fulfill me there” Rumi, 13 century Persian Sufi mystic)
YOUR TURN
Please share the coolest thing you learned in the recently connected to climate change or the atmosphere.
Or the coolest, essential point you learned in your life related to climate modification that the rest people might have missed out on. Your preferred graph or table maybe …
This is your chance to make somebody’s day. Or to cement in your very own mind something that you may otherwise fail to remember. Or to believe more deeply than or else about something dear to your heart.