Peru is the South American capital of gastronomy, and perhaps the world capital of potatoes. ... (a local language that was used by the Inca), 63-year-old María is used to receiving guests.

The potato wasn’t born in the American Midwest or on an Irish farm — it originated in the Andes Mountains of South America. ... For the Inca civilization, potatoes were more than just food.

How The Sweet Potato Crossed The Pacific ... smoking gun that proves the root vegetable made it all the way to Polynesia from the Andes — nearly 400 years before Inca gold was a twinkle in ...

King of potatoes. The Inca were deeply invested in eating well. I realized this while driving past steep, terraced fields on the way to Chinchero. In some places, ...

The potato's history is really a tale of two tubers, both born in New World dirt. What we know as a potato began in Peru, where it fed the Inca empire and residents of the Andean altiplano going ...

Potato-like plants cultivated by the Incas 2,000 years ago in the Andes show promise as a food crop in mountainous areas of the world today. Steven King, a botanist at the New York Botanical Garden… ...

The seeds of the Inca Empire were planted about 2,700 years ago when a warm spell combined with piles of llama excrement allowed maize agriculture to take root high up in the South American Andes ...

Potatoes originated in South America, tracing back to the Inca of Peru around 8000 to 5000 B.C. Spanish conquistadors brought them to Europe, and Sir Walter Raleigh introduced them to Ireland ...