Potato museums

So there’s an Idaho Potato Museum. I found out because four local worthies have just been nominated to its Hall of Fame. It seems a fun enough place, but definitely somewhat more parochial than the Potato Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. NPR did a piece on this latter outfit earlier this year, what with it being the International Year etc etc.

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Maybe you already mentioned this before, but there is a huge potato park, right in the original Andean spots (I don’t mention the 200+ wild potatoes spread out over South America): see or other cipotato links…

Thanks, Frank. Good point, though I think we may indeed have mentioned it before.

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