Our love affair with the spud

IT is appropriate that the national potato conference and trade show should be held in Dublin today, St Valentine’s Day, because the Irish people have had a love affair with the humble spud for hundreds of years.

Our love affair with the spud

The potato shines through Irish history, in good times and bad. It is central to the life of the people, has inspired poets and sometimes rivals the rain as a topic of conversation.

And in culinary terms it has evolved from the traditional boiled jacket vegetable to being a central ingredient of many modern gourmet dishes.

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