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potato
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Potato facts
  • 1. Potato blossoms are 5-lobed, 2-3 cm in diam.,
    vary from white to deep bluish purple and
    resemble those of the poisonous nightshade
    (Family Solanaceae).
  • 2. The potato is a tuber which forms a the
    swollen end of an underground stem.
  • 3. The buds of aborted leaves form the eyes of
    the potato. By planting chunks of potato
    containing these eyes genetically identical
    potato plants are grown.
  • 4. Thomas Jefferson gets the credit for
    introducing French fries to America when he
    served them at a White House dinner.

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Potato facts
  • 5. The average American eats about 140.6 lbs. of
    potatoes each year.
  • 49.8 lbs. Fresh potatoes
  • 58.8 lbs. Frozen French fries, hash browns, etc.
  • 16.9 lbs. Potato chips
  • 13.4 lbs. Mashed potato flakes, au gratin mixes,
    etc.
  • 1.7 lbs. Canned potatoes
  • The average German eats twice as much.

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Potato facts
  • 6. Nutritional facts
  • one serving of potato is one medium potato, about
    5.5 oz (148 kg)
  • the potato is about 80 water and 20 solids
  • per serving
  • 120 Calories from fat (20 of daily value based
    on a 2,000 calorie diet)
  • Total Fat 0g 0
  • Saturated Fat 0g 0
  • Cholesterol 0mg 0
  • Sodium 5mg 0
  • Potassium 680mg 20
  • Carbohydrates 27g 9
  • Dietary Fiber 2g 9
  • Sugars 3g
  • Protein 3g

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Potato facts
  • 7. Idaho is mentioned most often as a preferred
    source for potatoes than is any other point of
    origin for any other crop.
  • 8. The potato is the 4th most important food
    crop in the world
  • 1. wheat
  • 2. rice
  • 3. maize
  • 4. potato

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Potato facts
  • 9. Potatoes are grown in all 50 states and in
    125 countries throughout the world
  • 10. Since the early 1960s the percentage
    increase in area planted in developing countries
    has been higher than for any other major food
    crop.
  • 11. Annual world production
  • 275 million tons
  • Covers 18 million hectares
  • Russian Federation Poland is the worlds largest
    producer 28
  • China India is second 22

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Potato facts
  • 12. Europe is the largest per capita consumer
    (although consumption is declining).
  • 13. The worlds largest potato chip was produced
    by the Pringles Co. It measured 23 x 14.5.
  • 14. An Englishman, Eric Jenkins, grew 370 lbs.
    of potatoes from one plant.
  • 15. The largest potato grown was 7 lbs. 1 oz.
    (1953, Guinness Book of World Records).

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Potato facts
  • Origin of the potato
  • South America probably in the Peruvian Andes
  • Arrival in Europe
  • one of the major events in mans recent history,
  • at the time it was a matter of relatively little
    moment.
  • not sure when it was, there are many legend and
    stories.
  • 1. shipwreck off the coast of England
  • 2. Sir Walter Raleigh bringing the potato back
    as food on his voyages

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Origin of the potato
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Potato facts
  • It seems likely that it was introduced more than
    once.
  • 1576shopping list found with potatoes to buy
  • 1588established garden vegetable in parts of
    Italy
  • 1653the potato was still a luxury food til after
    the middle of the century but discussions in the
    Royal Society advocated the use of the potato as
    a defense against famine.
  • 1664John Forster in his book Englands Happiness
    Increased (A Sure and Easie Remedy against all
    succeeding Dear Years) said
  • By planting of the Roots ten thousand men in
    England and Wales who knew not how to live, or
    what to do to get a maintenance for their
    families, may of any one acre of ground make
    thirty pounds a year.

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World War I
  • the Great Potato Plan
  • A good famine food.

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3. Refuse second helpings of other food until
youve had more potatoes.
1. Serve potatoes for breakfast on three days a
week.
4. Serve potatoes in other ways that just plain
boiled.
2. Make your main dish a potato one day a week.
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Potato Blight
  • Late Blight of Potato
  • The potato
  • likes a moist, cool climate
  • a deep friable soil,
  • both of which are found abundantly in Ireland.
  • This combination is also good for many plant
    diseases of potato.
  • The potato blight fungus had recently arrived in
    Europe from diseased tubers in a ship from North
    America.

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Potato Blight
  • At first all sorts of different reasons were
    suggested as the cause of the trouble
  • frost,
  • easterly winds,
  • the moon,
  • guano manure,
  • even the summer thunderstorms.
  • There are several diseases that plague potatoes.
  • Curlviral disease
  • Botrytis cinereusbacterial
  • Late Blight of Potato
  • The cause was in fact a killer fungus, then still
    undiagnosed Phytophthora infestans.

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Late blight of potato
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Phytophthora infestans
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Potato Blight
  • LifeCycle
  • the practice of piling the rotting tubers and
    plants near the garden served to reinfect next
    years crop.

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Background on Ireland
  • 8000 BCarrival of first men in Ireland across
    the land-bridge from Scotland
  • 100 BCarrival of Gaels
  • AD 432St. Patrick arrives to help convert Gaelic
    Kings to Christianity
  • 795Arrival of Norsemen (Vikings)
  • 1641Great Catholic-Gaelic rebellion for return
    of lands (59 of land held by Catholics)
  • 1688James II deposed in England (22 of land
    held by Catholics)
  • 1695first penal laws enacted against Catholics
    (14 of land held by Catholics)
  • 17147 of land held by Catholics

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Background on Ireland
  • Celtic chieftains and Norman-Irish overlords
  • Brehon Law
  • Ireland was divided into baronies of various
    sizes, each constituting a more or less
    independent principality ruled over by a
    chieftain.
  • The baronies were subdivided into townships of
    various sizes.
  • In the moors they might be 1,000 acres in better
    agricultural lands 325 acres.
  • The cheiftanship of a clan or tribal group was
    not strictly hereditary, though it was by custom
    vested within one family.
  • The heir to the chief was chosen by the tribe.
    This custom, known as tanistry, gave rise to
    everlasting feuds and unrest and was a premium on
    murder.

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Background on Ireland
  • Gavelkindon the death of the father, the use of
    the land (not ownership) was divided equally
    between all his sons. The daughters were paid
    off in money.
  • The result of this custom led to
  • a minute subdivision of the land
  • communal occupation on a family basis.
  • Lord or Chief and their immediate family
  • Farmer Lordssublet small pieces of the land
    (conacres) to the cottiers
  • Cottiers-- cultivated the soil and having no land
    of their own they were serfs

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Background on Ireland
  • The dependence of the Irish upon the potato
    helped greater numbers to survive.
  • Potatoes could feed many
  • could be grown on small plots
  • not detract from the payments due the landlord
    for cash crops.
  • The potato was a subsistence crop
  • each family needed a definite area, roughly an
    Irish acre (conacre) for six persons, on which to
    grow its supply of potatoes and cereal crops to
    sell.
  • Most people owned no land of their own, and to
    grow sufficient potatoes and cash crops, more
    land was needed and the cottier had to rent this
    land.
  • Often all the cereal crops he grew on it had to
    be sold to pay the rent.

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Background on Ireland
  • The Farmer Lords made sure of getting the rent by
    insisting on payment before the potatoes were
    removed.
  • It was a big gamble for renting additional land.
  • If they won they got to eat but had no cash
  • if they lost, there was a shortage of food and
    loss of all cash resources including the house.
  • The cottiers were never given leases and any
    default in rent was followed with eviction, many
    times by force.
  • To make sure that the people did not remain to be
    a burden on the landlord the huts and cottages
    were destroyed.

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Background on Ireland
  • If this werent bad enough, the Church began
    taking a tithe on potatoes because it was a new
    crop and the proceeds went to support the
    growing Protestant Church.
  • This tithe was collected by a proctor, who took a
    commission.
  • A common trick was to value the crop on the basis
    of a famine year and the yield on a year of
    plenty.
  • Therefore the proctor taxed the cottier on
    potatoes at a high price, but paid the church a
    relatively low price.

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Background on Ireland
  • Despite trouble with the economy upon which they
    depended, most landlords, Irish and English
    alike, lived generally far away in England or on
    the Continent,
  • maintained their lifestyles of conspicuous
    consumption
  • they were living high on the hog

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Ejectment Murder As Major Mahon, a gentleman
holding large estates in Roscommon was returning
home about twenty minutes past six oclock on the
evening of Monday, from a meeting of the board of
guardians of the Roscommon union, he was shot
dead by an assassin, about four miles from
Strokestown. There were two persons engaged in
the murder, according to our informant. Both
fired one piece missed fire, but the other
proved fatal, lodging a heavily loaded discharge
in the breast. The victim exclaimed, Oh, God!
and spoke no more. Major Mahon was formerly in
the 95th Dragoons, now Lancers, and succeeded to
the inheritance of the late Lord Harlands
estates about two years ago, the rental being
about 10,000. The people were said to be
displeased with him for two reasons. The first
was his refusal to continue the conacre system,
the second was his clearing away what he deemed
the surplus population. He chartered two vessels
to America and freighted them with his evicted
tenatry. The Nation, Dublin, 6 November 1847.
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Crop Failures
  • Two types of failures
  • 1. Fault of the potato
  • where the potato fails to grow at all
  • where the plant grows but does not thrive
    producing poor tubers.
  • where the tubers are destroyed
  • 2. Not the fault of the potato
  • cereal crop failure

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European temperature
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Crop failures
potato
grain
both
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Crop failures
potato
grain
both
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Crop failures
potato
grain
both
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Subsistence farming for potatoes
Year 1
Year 2
S
Su
F
W
S
Su
F
W
Grow
potatoes
grain
potatoes
Eat
grain
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Subsistence farming for potatoes
Year 1
Year 2
S
Su
F
W
S
Su
F
W
Grow
potatoes
grain
potatoes
Eat
grain
If the potato failed there was an urgent demand
in the autumn for corn and oats. the peasants
had a limited supply of cereals, they only grew
enough to tide him over the two or
three hungry months of late summer. if
(lacking potatoes) they consumed their oats, they
could procure no more, having no cash
resources famine conditions arose in the first
month or two of the following year.
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Subsistence farming for potatoes
Year 1
Year 2
S
Su
F
W
S
Su
F
W
Grow
potatoes
grain
potatoes
Eat
grain
If the potato failed there was an urgent demand
in the autumn for corn and oats. the peasants
had a limited supply of cereals, they only grew
enough to tide him over the two or
three hungry months of late summer. if
(lacking potatoes) they consumed their oats, they
could procure no more, having no cash
resources famine conditions arose in the first
month or two of the following year.
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Subsistence farming for potatoes
Year 1
Year 2
S
Su
F
W
S
Su
F
W
Grow
potatoes
Blue months
grain
potatoes
Eat
grain
If the cereals failed there was no bread or
meal for use during late autumn, winter and
spring, a heavier use was made on the store of
potatoes potatoes were often consumed by the end
of the spring of the next year, and they were
left without food supplies of any kind until the
late autumn when the new crop of potatoes were
ready to dig. !!!
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Potato famine
  • THE SETTING FOR A DISASTER LIKE EUROPE HAD NOT
    SEEN BEFORE
  • Travelers in Ireland had long commented on the
    extreme misery of the poorest Irish peasant.
  • England and Ireland at that time was the culture
    and society written about by Charles Dickens with
    all of the flaws which he described in his
    novels.
  • In the USA slavery was still widely practiced and
    there was the opening of the industrial
    revolution with the sweatshops and child labor
    practices.

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The Potato Eaters by van Gogh I have tried to
make it clear how those people eating their
potatoes under the lamplight, have dug the earth
with those very hands they put in the dish, and
so it speaks of manual labor, and how they have
honestly earned their food.All winter long I
have had in hand the threads of this tissue, and
have search for the definite pattern, and though
it has become a tissue of a rough and coarse
aspect, nevertheless the threads have been
selected carefully and according to certain
rules.
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Potato still-life by van Gogh. I mean to
express the material in such a way that they
become heavy, solid lumps, which would hurt you
if they were thrown at you.
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Background on Potato famine
  • Laissez-Faire economic philosophy
  • Dominated the thinking of politicians and
    economists who manage the economy.
  • It called for non-intervention by government in
    the economy and held that it was wrong for the
    government to meddle in the economics at all.
  • Those who had the most to gain from economic
    prosperity would see to the protection of those
    who made that prosperity possible (note the
    similarity to trickle-down economics and
    Reaganomics).
  • The landlords and businessmen and investors had
    nothing to gain by allowing their workers to
    starve.

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Background on Potato famine
  • Poor Business Practices
  • The failure of the Irish economy to grow outside
    of Agriculture was associated with the ways in
    which the Irish as a Culture adapted to the new
    industrial economy
  • the ways which businesses were established and
    the inability of local groups and organizations
    to pool resources to foster economic growth
    (especially in the Fishing industry).
  • These problems are seen by economists not to have
    been caused by the dominance of England by the
    choices of the Irish informed by cultural
    tendencies and practices.

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Background on Potato famine
  • 1815
  • the Irish people were dependent not only on the
    potato as a source of food and income and upon
    the purchase of other agricultural products,
    including a most important onewheat.
  • The purchase of great quantities of Irish
    agricultural produce by England helped the Irish
    economy to grow and people to prosper.
  • 18005.0 million
  • 18216.5 million
  • 18418.0 million
  • The excessive demand created by the English war
    efforts distorted the Irish economy. When the
    major European wars came to an end, England
    reduced dramatically its investment in Irish
    agricultural products.

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Background on Potato famine
  • England was a valuable trading partner and a
    politically dominant one.
  • With the end of a boom, however, comes a bust and
    unemployment was the result.
  • It is the backdrop for the famine and a primary
    underlying foundation for the events and
    suffering which occurred.
  • 1841
  • Two-thirds of the Irish were dependent on
    Agriculture as a source of income.
  • The remaining one-third engaged in other
    industrial and economic pursuits that did not
    fare well in competition against a developing
    English manufacturing and industrial economy.
  • Successful economic strategies, products and
    markets were not developed.

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Potato famine
  • 1845
  • Famine noted in the Irish press for the first
    time on September 9. Sir Robert Peel, Prime
    Minister of England, took prompt action
  • Purchased 100,000 worth of Indian corn and
    cornmeal in the USA
  • it was not then known that corn meal would be
    empty of vitamin C and that it would combine with
    other ailments to produce dysentery and cause
    more to die.
  • Relief commission was set up and formed local
    committees for relief. Local contributions were
    supplemented to the extent of two thirds by
    government grants from the people of England.

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Potato famine
  • Relief Works The English Government paid half
    the cost of such projects. 140,000 people were
    employed at one time.
  • Such relief projects are often ridiculed in
    popular accounts (canals with no water, famine
    roads going nowhere) but there were several
    important functional projects such as docks and
    roads which are still in used today.
  • These were very similar to the make work projects
    of the American depression under FDR.
  • The English government provided 365,000 sterling
    to the Irish people in the form of loans between
    1845-1846.

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Potato famine
  • The Protective Tariff on grain was repealed and
  • The Repeal of the Corn Laws was a step designed
    to lower the cost of grain to the Irish.
  • This decision was not popular in England
  • because he helped the Irish in this way the
    English Prime Minister was put out of office.June
    1845
  • The Government targeted the Irish landlords as
    responsible for the Famine. They made them pay
    rates to support relief.
  • In need of money for their high lifestyle, the
    landlords exacted the money from the agricultural
    work force, causing evictions on a large scale.

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Potato famine
  • At the same time they were implementing modern
    agricultural practices
  • called for larger farms
  • with fewer people resident and working on the
    land.
  • Displaced agricultural workers could not find
    employment in industry which had not developed
    sufficiently in other areas.
  • 1846
  • Universal Potato Crop Failure in July and August
    lead to the greatest wave of immigration, which
    generally took place in the summer months.
  • Relief employment was still provided in
    significant amounts
  • Sep. 30,000
  • Oct. 150,000
  • Nov. 285,000
  • Dec. 500,000

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Potato famine
  • Expenditures to the Irish from the English Board
    of Works amounted to 30,000 sterling a day with
    an administrative staff of 11,500 persons.
  • 1847 (Black 47)
  • The worst time of the Famine.
  • public works were abandoned and direct relief
    extended.
  • An act was passed providing for the
    establishment of kitchens and the free
    distribution of soup.
  • Epidemics of famine fever (typhus) and relapsing
    fever combined with dysentery, caused by
    consumption of turnips.
  • Corn meal provided by the government did not
    contain Vitamin C, a fact unknown at the time.
    Famine dropsy or hunger edema occurred as a result

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Potato famine
  • In 1847 100,000 immigrants sailed to the U.S.
  • 1849
  • 932,000 people were maintained on English
    government relief paid for by taxation of
    landlords.
  • Population of Ireland was down to 6.5 million
    (down from 8 million in 1841).

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Potato famine
  • Ejectment MurderAs Major Mahon, a gentleman
    holding large estates in Roscommon was returning
    home about twenty minutes past six oclock on the
    evening of Monday, from a meeting of the board of
    guardians of the Roscommon union, he was shot
    dead by an assassin, about four miles from
    strokestown. There were two persons engaged in
    the murder, according to our informant. Both
    fired one pies missed fire, but the other proved
    fatal, lodging a leavily loaded discharge in the
    breast. The victim exclaimed, Oh, God! and
    spoke no more. Major Mahon was formerly in the
    95th Dragoons, now Lancers, and succeeded to the
    inheritance of the late Lord Harlands estates
    about two years ago, the rental being about
    10,000. The people were said to be displeased
    with him for two reasons. The first was his
    refusal to continue the conacre system, the
    second was his clearing away what he deemed the
    surplus population. He chartered two vessels to
    America and freighted them with his evicted
    tenatry. The Nation, Dublin, 6 November 1847.

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Potato famine
  • Starving in a sea of seafood
  • James H. Tuke, 1846 So rude is their tackle and
    so fragile and liable to be upset are their
    primitive boats or coracles, made of wickerwork
    over which sail cloth is stretched, that they can
    only venture to sea in fine weather and thus,
    with food almost in sight, the people starve.
  • After centuries of seasonal famine due to crop
    failure the Irish people had not adapted to the
    consumption of seafood nor had they developed a
    fishing community that could rise to the occasion
    by producing a larger supply of food.
  • The fishing community/culture failed to develop a
    cooperative relationship with the government and
    community and between its own members.

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Potato famine
  • Summary
  • This was a disaster the likes of which had never
    occurred in Europe.
  • Economic depression as well as the Famine
    combined with economic re-alignment, changes in
    agriculture technology and the rise of industry.
  • The potato was hit just as badly in England as in
    Ireland that summer,
  • but the blight caused no famine there.
  • In England, unlike Ireland, even the poorest
    could afford food other than the potato, and no
    other crop except the potato was affected in
    either country.
  • There was hope that some of the Irish potato crop
    could be saved, but one report described how when
    they tried boiling potatoes which had been dug it
    was impossible to bear the stench they emitted.

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Crop Failures
  • If the potato failedthere was an urgent demand
    in the autumn for corn and oats.
  • The peasants had a very limited supply of
    cereals,
  • they only grew enough to afford an occasional
    oatcake
  • and enough to tide him over the two or three
    hungry months of late summer.
  • If (lacking potatoes) they consumed their oats,
    they could procure no more, having no cash
    resources
  • famine conditions arose in the first month or two
    of the following year.

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Crop Failures
  • If the cereals failedthere was no bread or meal
    for use during late autumn, winter and spring,
  • a heavier use was made on the store of potatoes
  • the result that they were often consumed by the
    end of the spring of the next year, and they were
    left without food supplies of any kind until the
    late autumn when the new crop of potatoes were
    ready to dig.
  • Sometimes they might have a patch of early
    potatoes in addition to the main crop, which
    might be dug in July, but this was not common.
  • Early varieties were not generally grown by the
    peasantry
  • they cultivated heavy cropping, late, coarse
    varieties (they did not have a lot of growing
    space)
  • This happened a lot!!!!!

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The Potato and Art
  • The Potato Eaters by van Gogh
  • I have tried to make it clear how those people
    eating their potatoes under the lamplight, have
    dug the earth with those very hands they put in
    the dish, and so it speaks of manual labor, and
    how they have honestly earned their food.All
    winter long I have had in hand the threads of
    this tissue, and have search for the definite
    pattern, and though it has become a tissue of a
    rough and coarse aspect, nevertheless the threads
    have been selected carefully and according to
    certain rules.

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The Potato and Art
  • Potato still-life by van Gogh.
  • I mean to express the material in such a way
    that they become heavy, solid lumps, which would
    hurt you if they were thrown at you.

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