5 sentences with 'potato'
Example sentences and phrases with the word potato and other words derived from it.
• « The potato has also been the subject of his scrutiny. The culinary researcher found that when baked with the skin coated in oil, it reaches a much higher temperature than when simply wrapped in aluminium foil. The shell becomes golden brown and crispy, while without fat it remains thin and soft. And the oiled tuber cooks more quickly. »
• « And beyond that, that funny little thing that looks like a potato just plucked from the earth, is Phobos, the moon of Mars, just six thousand kilometres from where we are. So dark is the soil of Phobos that it reflects barely three to five per cent of the sunlight it receives. »
• « Starch is stored in roots such as sweet potato, cassava; in stalks such as potatoes or in seeds such as beans, maize, wheat. »
• « In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers found competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were willing to work for far less and endure worse conditions than the native-born. »