McDonald’s Japan announced on Dec. 21 that it would only sell small portions of its popular staple through Dec. 30 because of a potato shortage. The company blamed heavy rain and flooding in ...
When the potato crop was taken from its native area in the Andes to Europe in the 1500s, it slowly adapted. In the Andes, winter was when the plant grew its tubers, per ScienceNews. Europe's harsher ...