28 - When Parmentier Tricked People Into Eating Potatoes

The Fantastic History Of Food

It’s almost unthinkable that just a few hundred years ago, potatoes were only eaten in a very small corner of the earth. They are now one of the most widely eaten vegetables around the globe and a lot of that has to do with the cunning and trickery of our man Parmentier.
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