Member-only story

Potatoes Have a Season

And this is it!

Julie Moreno
4 min readJun 26, 2020
Photo taken by the author

I never thought much about potatoes until I roasted potatoes year-round in the restaurant business, trying to solve why the potatoes didn’t reach the same golden-brown color at certain times of the year, no matter the time spent or temperature in the oven.

But, since leaving the restaurant life and working at a farm, harvesting and eating potatoes within the same week, I was shocked at how different they tasted compared to anything I had purchased at the store.

Potatoes fresh from the ground have actually had flavor and a texture that is unique to its variety.

Even though they are a vegetable, many consider them a starchy carbohydrate, but they have fiber, vitamins, and minerals and are nutritious and filling in appropriate quantities.

Potatoes are available every day at your local grocer or mega-mart. And this year-round availability causes us to forget that potatoes have a season. But, they are planted and harvested like all other vegetables depending on the weather.

Potatoes are well suited for storage and have a natural dormant period of 60 to 130 days, depending on the variety. Therefore, they have become a staple food, sustaining civilizations in parts of the world that can’t grow much else. This vegetable, native to the Americas, has been…

--

--

Julie Moreno
Julie Moreno

Written by Julie Moreno

A chef trying to get others to cook their own food

No responses yet