Scientists at Leeds University had been hoping to test the effectiveness and environmental impact of a new type of potato that was resistant to cyst nematode worms.
More recently, new celery varieties and potato varieties have been introduced that were found to have natural toxicants that are harmful to some people, including farm workers who handle the crops on a daily basis.
Canadian food mogul Wallace McCain was the son of a potato seed exporter in New Brunswick, part of a long line of Irish farmers.
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In June Biosecurity New Zealand, the government agency charged with protecting the country's crops from such threats, announced that this new bacterium had also been detected in potato crops.
Among the new dishes are roast cod with garlic potato puree and leek and mushroom sauce, braised chicken thighs with lentils, cauliflower and very cheesy sauce and navarin of lamb with couscous and grilled vegetables.
"We tried to get it to New York last year, " Sue Kennedy, the potato's spokeswoman, explained.
Thus were exposed not only the Snake River Potato Growers but the hard-cider producers of New York and Vermont (who were to be allowed to pay lower federal excise taxes) and the sheriffs of Mississippi, who were to be allowed a new tax deduction for business expenses.
This question--what is new law, what is old law--is another hot potato.
By a happy accident, this concentrated industrial activity in the regions where coal was readily available, and a potato-driven population boom provided ample workers for the new factories.
The likes of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Birds Eye Potato Waffles were being served up in homes across the UK. New frozen desserts also became popular, such as Black Forest Gateau, Wall's Viennetta and Birds Eye's Arctic Roll.
If Egypt gets a new constitution to pave the way for fresh parliamentary elections, the Brotherhood may well be left holding a hot potato of popular fury.
It captures something essential about Prime Burger, a shopworn space which was last updated in the 1960s: It represents not just a business but a sort of home, to loyal staff like the ageless Eddie Adams, who baked there for 63 years and produced a sweet potato pie that could make hard men weep, and to generations of lost-and-gone New Yorkers like me.
Where would German food be without the potato, Italian food without the tomato, or Thai food without chilies, all originally products of the New World?
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