potato
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As the peaches soften, periodically crush them against the side of the saucepan with the back of a wooden spoon or a potato masher to help release their juices.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He said the new findings provide unusually strong evidence that natural selection acted on this gene in the Andes after potato cultivation began.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lengthy negotiations secured the bird's release, but not before refugees carried Feliks in a potato sack over the Nahr al-Kabir river on the northern border between Syria and Lebanon, the Associated Press reported.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
You can’t help but grin at Sessa’s hoot when his scrawny Tony finally manages to muscle a raw potato through a french-fry slicer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mamá serves potato borekas and spinach bulemas, and there’s just enough food for us all to have one helping.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The images were of a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
We walk on, through a field of potatoes, the plants shrivelled to nothing and lying brown on the soil.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It turns out it’s not what you mix into the dish that makes it delicious—it’s how you cook the potatoes.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
They were rough, with calluses from sewing, burns from ironing, cuts from slicing potatoes.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
