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A longtime ally, adviser and fundraiser for New York Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election effort after she attempted to hand a local journalist a cash-stuffed potato chip bag. Winnie Greco was outed by a local news organization, The City, for trying to give cash surreptitiously tucked inside a Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chip bag …

A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday. The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips — was made …

Scientists Reveal the Potato Dish That Raises Diabetes Risk the Most  SciTechDaily Diabetes risk hinges on how you cook potatoes  News-Medical Type 2 Diabetes: Eating Fries Weekly Linked to 20% Higher Risk  Healthline Potatoes aren’t the problem — unless you eat them this way, study says  San Francisco Chronicle What scientists discovered about french fries and diabetes  ScienceDaily Source link

Potatoes — both the wild species, and the domesticated ones we buy at the grocery store — evolved from a chance hybridization between two plants some nine million years ago. Natural History Museum, London hide caption toggle caption Natural History Museum, London The potato: Mash it, bake it, fry it … No matter how you slice it, the potato is …

KFC is bringing back its potato wedges on August 18, five years after removing them from the menu. At the time, the chain replaced the wedges with Secret Recipe Fries, marking the first time in decades that fries became the standard side for KFC in the US. The change sparked backlash from customers who had considered the seasoned potato wedges …

The Tomato Twist That Created the Potato 9 Million Years Ago  SciTechDaily Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed – and a tomato was involved  Reuters Scientists finally know where potatoes come from—and the answer is very weird  National Geographic Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.  Live Science What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato.  The New York Times Source …

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding the world’s growing population. According to one study, the introduction of the potato from the Americas accounted for about a quarter of the population growth …

Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed – and a tomato was involved  Reuters What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato.  The New York Times Potatoes from tomatoes? Popular starchy vegetable derived from ancient interbreeding, researchers say  CBS News Scientists finally know where potatoes come from—and the answer is very weird  National Geographic Remarkable News in Potatoes: They Evolved From Tomatoes  The Atlantic Source link

When it comes to the senses, there could not be a greater difference between Friday night chips and juicy Mediterranean tomatoes. However, scientists have discovered that these two foods are not so far from each other after all. Landmark research has found the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor nearly 9 million years ago. Wild tomatoes, which grew in the …

Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.  The Washington Post ‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find  The Guardian Scientists finally know where potatoes come from—and the answer is very weird  National Geographic Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.  Live Science Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes?  The Atlantic …