The humble spud is back in fashion

The humble spud is back in fashion Still Life: Potatoes in a Yellow dish, by Vincent Van Gogh (1888)

Now, let us praise the humble potato. It’s been long associated with Ireland – and negatively, too, because of the terrible failure of the crop prompting the Great Famine. Irish potato consumption has been falling in the past decades, and the Irish appetite for the spud has been overtaken by consumers in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine…

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