![This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-root-the-potato-no-matter-how-much-you-prepare-it-is-tasteless-and-flour.jpg)
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