{"id":2628,"date":"2021-05-17T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:40","slug":"potatoes-are-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/naturalia\/potatoes-are-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"POTATOES ARE IMMIGRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, posters started to appear in British cities announcing that \u2018Potatoes Are Immigrants\u2019. A drawing of a cheerful heap of chips, together with one of those little takeaway forks, accompanied the text. Versions of the image were spotted in the United States shortly afterwards. The poster, by Mia Frostner and Rosalie Schweiker, reminds us that this most \u2018British\u2019 of foods is itself, originally, from somewhere very far away. As in almost every other place where it is eaten today, the Andean origins of the potato have been forgotten. The global story of the potato\u2019s travels from the Andes to everywhere is a tale at once of colonisation, conflict and local innovation, condensed into a small, earthy mouthful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, posters started to appear in British cities announcing that \u2018Potatoes Are Immigrants\u2019. A drawing of a cheerful heap of chips, together with one of those little takeaway forks, accompanied the text. Versions of the image were spotted in the United States shortly afterwards. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naturalia","tag-potato"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}