The story of potatoes starts around 350 million years ago. They evolved from the poisonous ancestor of the plant, nightshade. Human settlers had reached that far the world around 15,000 years ago. The wild potato was domesticated about 8,000 or 8 millennia BC.
In this episode Stakuyi takes a deep dive into the introduction of potatoes to Europe and the trials and tribulations that came with it. Did you know potatoes were EVIL?
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