buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
Anyone familiar with the small deli chain, "Jasons Deli"?
Check out the size of their baked spuds!
You could feed a family of 4 on these things!!
there's an interesting documentary on pbs called "the botany of desire" that discusses the dangers of monoculture farming and how the fast food industry is driving these practices just so they can make very long french fries from giant russet burbank potatoes.
it also discusses how the potato blight in ireland in the 1840's could actually happen here on a much larger scale because of monoculture, and how the natives of the andes have never experienced such a disaster because they grow so many kinds of potatoes that the biodiversity prevents such a thing. it also explains the history of the bt potato (aka my potato ) and how it could allow for the monoculture farming of spuds, but because of people's fears of gmo foods, the program to grow bt spuds died.
yes, i get very bored around 3am at work..