How the Potato Changed the World: From the Incas to the Industrial Revolution
Since the first time they caught a ride on a Spanish ship from Peru, potatoes have taken the world on a wild journey. Feared as the “work of the devil”, hailed as the answer to starvation and cooked into a thousand different recipes, today our planet consumes one trillion- a trillion! – every single year. In this video we trace the potato back to the very beginning and follow it’s incredible path from Incan sacrifices to Mr. Potato Head and everything in between.
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0:00 – Introduction
1:04 – The Potato
2:13 – Machu Picchu
5:47 – Early History
8:17 – Chuño
9:53 – Market
13:28 – The Potato Crosses the Ocean
15:09 – The Savior of the Ming
18:03 – Tudou
20:45 – Fear and Superstition
23:20 – The Potato Takes Europe
28:14 – French Cuisine
30:51 – The Last Holdouts
33:39 – Potatoes Everywhere
35:10 – Ireland
36:37 – Famine
39:37 – Irish Feast
41:37 – Aftermath
43:30 – Fries, Chips, and Everything Else
46:44 – Ms. Maria and Mr. Singh
48:57 – Eight Days of Chuño
50:17 – The Big Day
54:25 – The Potato Today
57:34 – Credits and Post-Credits
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Video Credits:
https://youtu.be/Y8KeqoGtSNA?si=mEx2C90rUk0AVbIR
https://youtu.be/3iSjIaM01j8?si=EcLdRKjY-JZ91Y3d
https://youtu.be/MbuHRo2HAgY?si=UPQSCitBrlU7RiFH
22 Comments
Location pins, and one quick note:
First- I want to clarify a couple of points in the video: 1) how the potato blight reached Europe is controversial; there are plenty of articles and books that claim it arrived first from North America. I trust the Smithsonian research and several Irish studies, which is why we stated the Peruvian origin, but I should have pointed out that it's not a definitive fact. And 2) Daria has been listening to a podcast on the French Revolution during her marathon training runs (I know, she's probably a sociopath) and informed me last night that my speculation about Louis XVI's potato decoration when he was sent to the guillotine couldn't be true, because he was in hiding as a commoner. Ah well.
Locations:
1- Chinese: https://maps.app.goo.gl/w5JvQLtwyGAcY1hx8
2- French: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xMqAGtVrMAy75wDK9
3- Irish: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BuLfQYAcbS6uxZLB8
4- Ms. Maria and Mr. Singh: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AZ9NqfwFSvP8sJ4Z9
And as always…our video was filmed at Boonlang (https://maps.app.goo.gl/UTiHPQszTb4pD6tf6) and our delivery burgers came from Easy Burger (https://maps.app.goo.gl/v9omBMhNL9dGDv2K6)
Cheers all
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As a German, I really appreciate this video more than all the other brilliant ones! :-)
Tuber-lar
Really interesting!
3bn per day?! Who's the real victim here?! 😢😅😂
There were records but they were nots on strings and most were destroyed by Europeans because they didn't know what it was.
FINALLY an OTR cooking show
Hey, Adam, you don't like Guinness, I'm not a fan of Indian food, but that being said, this was another good one (not sure about that Chunyo, though, if in the end it just tastes like……potato). Some other facts: forget that thing about people being here in the Americas only 11,000 years ago, since there has been continual evidence for a while that there were folks here in at least 40,000 BC, and the evidence keeps pushing that back even further. As an aside, I'm pretty sure you've already done a segment on pork, but I'm planning on making a holiday meal of Pernil, Pasteles, possibly Mofongo, and also Coquito this year, instead of the old tried and true Turkey or Ham, etcetera. We'll see how that turns out.
Love the video as always, but not really a fan of using 'ancient' to describe the Chinese potato dishes as well as how blurred the lines kinda were between mentioning the Incas and the actual ancient inhabitants of the region.
Ah potato the most versatile vegetable. It's used in almost every kind of cuisine we can think of.
Ha! I was at that Irish pub to kill some time before getting my bag from the hotel to head to the airport a few weeks ago…and I was downing a decent Guinness and people watching at that very table! 😂
Such incredible content. We are not worthy!!!
Now i wanna see a full feature film of how potato conquer the world!
potatoes is why i abandoned christianity for the enslavable farce that it is
Whats the music playing towards the end? Starts around minute 56
I don’t like Guinness
Me too pal 😂😂😂😂
Fab video. It would great to hear you talk about your experience in China.
Adam, I discovered your channel not that long ago and absolutely love it. Your content and presentation is spot on. Thank you.
The Spanish Conquistadors in 1535 discovered the Potatoes .
“Boil them, smash’em, stick’em in a stew, lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of a right fish….
Even you couldn’t say no to that!!”
Samewise Gamgee
Every cuisine of the world have a bit of the Peruvian Cuisine (the best cuisine of the world) through the potato as part of their own menu!