Editing Potato (section)

=== Culinary ===

{{See also |List of potato dishes |Potato cooking}}

[[List of potato dishes |Potato dishes ]] vary around the world. [[Peruvian cuisine]] naturally contains the potato as a primary ingredient in many dishes, as around 3,000 varieties of the tuber are grown there.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062400727.html |title=''Peru Celebrates Potato Diversity'' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date= 24 June 2007 |access-date=16 July 2010 |first=Monte |last=Hayes}}</ref> [[Chuño]] is a [[freeze-drying |freeze-dried]] potato product traditionally made by [[Quechuas |Quechua]] and [[Aymara people |Aymara]] communities of [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]].<ref>Timothy Johns: With bitter Herbs They Shall Eat it : Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1990, {{ISBN |0-8165-1023-7}}, pp. 82–84</ref> In the UK, potatoes form part of the traditional dish [[fish and chips]]. Roast potatoes are commonly served as part of a [[Sunday roast |Sunday roast dinner]] and mashed potatoes form a major component of several other traditional dishes, such as [[shepherd's pie]], [[bubble and squeak]], and [[bangers and mash]]. New potatoes may be cooked with [[mentha |mint]] and are often served with butter. In Germany, [[Northern Europe]] (Finland, Latvia and especially [[Scandinavia |Scandinavian countries]]), Eastern Europe (Russia, [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]]) and Poland, newly harvested, early ripening varieties are considered a special delicacy. Boiled whole and served un-peeled with [[dill]], these "new potatoes" are traditionally consumed with [[pickled herring |Baltic herring]]. Puddings made from grated potatoes ([[kugel]], [[kugelis]], and [[potato babka]]) are popular items of [[Ashkenazi cuisine |Ashkenazi]], [[Lithuanian cuisine |Lithuanian]], and [[Belarusian cuisine |Belarusian]] cuisine.<ref name="Bremzen90">{{cite book |author1=von Bremzen, Anya |author2=Welchman, John |title=Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook |publisher=Workman Publishing |location=New York |year=1990 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pleasetotablethe00vonb/page/319 319–20] |isbn=978-0-89480-845-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/pleasetotablethe00vonb/page/319}}</ref> [[Cepelinai]], the national dish of [[Lithuania]], are [[dumpling]]s made from boiled grated potatoes, usually stuffed with [[Ground meat |minced meat]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delac.eu/stories/40?back= |title=D.E.L.A.C. |work=delac.eu |access-date=25 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305044428/http://www.delac.eu/stories/40?back= |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Italy, in the [[Friuli]] region, potatoes serve to make a type of pasta called [[gnocchi]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Roden |first=Claudia |title=The Food of Italy |publisher=Arrow Books |location=London |year=1990 |page=72 |isbn=978-0-09-976220-1}}</ref> Potato is used in northern China where rice is not easily grown, a popular dish being {{lang |zh-Hans |青椒土豆丝}} (''qīng jiāo tǔ dòu sī''), made with green pepper, vinegar and thin slices of potato. In the winter, roadside sellers in northern China sell roasted potatoes.<ref name=Solomon>{{cite book |last=Solomon |first=Charmaine |title=Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food |year=1996 |publisher=William Heinemann Australia |location=Melbourne |isbn=978-0-85561-688-5 |page=293}}</ref>

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File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Pommes frites med salatmayonnaise.jpg |''Pommes frites'', also called chips and [[French fries]]
File:Peru PapasRellenas2.jpg |[[Papa rellena]] 
File:Baked Potato (3662019664).jpg |Baked potato with sour cream and chives
File:Bauernfrühstück-01.jpg |German {{lang|de|[[Bauernfrühstück]]}} ("farmer's breakfast")
File:Cepelinai 2, Vilnius, Lithuania - Diliff.jpg |[[Cepelinai]]
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