Teutonic Knight
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Russian Kitchen: the world of potatoes
The humble vegetable is much-loved in the country and is an essential part of an authentic Russian meal.
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Russia is the world’s second largest consumer of potato after China. In 2005, we consumed 19 million tonnes of potato, followed by India with its consumption of 17 million tonnes. Each Russian ate about 131 kgs of potatoes in one year but given the larger population and rice-eating tradition, Indians consume only 14 kgs per person. (Source: FAOSTAT)
My husband jokingly calls me "potato queen". This is somewhere true. I can eat potatoes every day. I can eat boiled potato with butter or curd, I can eat fried potatoes with mushrooms and onion, and I can eat mashed potatoes every day and never get bored of it.
I think Slavs seriously eat too much potatoes. We hardly ever eat rice. Only potatoes, potatoes, potates all the time.
It's no wonder we have bloated potato faces and it's hard to get lean.