Where were potatoes first grown?
Potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America, in what's now Peru and Bolivia, thousands of years ago.
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“Paprika is closely associated with Hungary.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Who invented the Scoville scale?
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What was the Irish Potato Famine?
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