Sweet potato

While the Great famine could not have happened without the failure of the potato crop – something beyond the control of the British Government- their subsequent response, or there lack of, to the crisis greatly contributed to the devastation caused by the blight. As evidenced by Tony Blair’s 1997 apology to the Irish people, the British Government’s policies during the Great Famine toward a country it was, on paper at least, in union with, were unforgivable. Although the Conservative government…

in potatoes. Four different solutions were created (distilled water, 1% salt (NaCl), 3% salt and 5% salt. The potatoes were sliced until they were 3cm long, each test tube contained 3 strips of potato cores and a different concentration. The potato strips were weighed and the results recorded. The potato cores were left in each solution for 24 hours. Once the test results were collected the data was averaged and placed into a graph and a table. As shown in both the table and the graph, both…

emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as potato blight, which wasted many potato crops all around Europe. However, its main affection was on Ireland because as I mentioned before most of them were farmers and about one third of the population was dependent on the potato for a range of ethnic, religious, political, social, and economic reasons which all lead to the disaster. Going back…

to the United States. According to Country Meters, and World Meters, the current population of Ireland is 4,824,604. While the United States is 325,127634, making the U.S. population over 300,000,000 times larger than Ireland’s. Also, detailed in Potato Goodness, potatoes were originally introduced…

Stanley Fish wrote Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do, to talk about how hard it is to get a cup of coffee today. It used to be that when you wanted a cup of coffee you went into a nondescript place fitted out largely in linoleum, Formica, and neon, sat down at a counter, and, in response to a brisk “What’ll you have, dear?” said, “Coffee and a cheese Danish.” Twenty seconds later, tops, they arrived, just as you were settling into the sports page (Fish, n.d.). He then continues on to say how the…

potatoes are a tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum which was first cultivated by the Inca Indians in Peru around 8,000 BC to 5,000 BC. When the Spanish Conquistadors conquered Peru in 1536, “[they] discovered the flavors of the potato, and [brought] them to Europe” (PotatoGoodness 2).…

recognized that every other family ate mashed potatoes on this day too. A lot more butter and sour cream goes into our mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving and in this case, that is why they are special, but in reality, it was just another day and just another potato. The biggest difference of mashed potatoes on a normal day and mashed potatoes as a celebratory item was that Thanksgiving gathered my entire family together to enjoy both sides of our culture. Thanksgiving cooking became a lot more…

be brought by travellers and explorers into the countries of the Mediterranean as well as to the Far East. 9750 BC Evidence of wild pea consumption by humans, discovered by archaeologists exploring the "Spirit Cave" on the border between Burma and Thailand. 7000 BC An archaeological dig at Jarmo in northwestern Iraq uncovered peas that were dated between 7000 and 6000 BC. 3000 BC The archaeological remains of Bronze Age villages in Switzerland contain early traces of primitive peas dating back…

I planted the potato plants, went back every morning, and evening to water the plants. A month has past and I have full grown potatoes in the ground, but today I noticed that there was holes in my garden which someone has been taking my potato plants. At this point I was really mad. I made a plan to see who has been taking my potatoes, I was going to go to the garden at 10:00PM…

In this experiment, we set out to determine the osmolarity of a potato. In order to do this, we placed potato pieces in seven different solutions of varying sucrose molarity. First, we weighed each potato piece to obtain the initial weight, shown in Figure 1. Then, we split the pieces vertically before placing them in the cubs containing the sucrose solutions. In each cup was a solution of sucrose with a molarity ranging from 0.0M to 0.6M. After placing the potatoes in the cups, we allowed them…