Tag Archives: potato

National Geographic on food variety

July 6, 2011 – 12:29 pm

Having just harvested this year’s crop of potatoes and eagerly awaiting our slow-growing beetroot and ripening tomatoes, I was particularly interested in this graph published by National Geographic.  It shows how, in America, people have come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables and thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared (approximately 93 percent […]

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Sky garden spuds

July 20, 2010 – 4:41 pm

Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew. Or, in our case, grow ’em on a third floor balcony in Hackney and tuck into ’em fresh out of the earth. We’d been tending these glorious potatoes (Organic Orlas and Maris Peers) since early March and enjoyed a continuous harvest from mid June until the […]

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Smokey Dauphinoise

June 6, 2010 – 8:18 pm

There comes a point in your life when you have to ask yourself this one, vital question: why am I reading the internet when I could be tucking into a lip-smacking bowl of smoked mackerel dauphinoise potatoes? I asked myself that very question when I came across this recipe on Domesticsluttery.com last week and immediately […]

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Mozzarella Chili Mash

April 27, 2010 – 5:08 am

Ben’s two-layer mash recipe, separated with mozzarella and chili.

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