Dont you know, that:
The potato is the world’s 4th most important food crop after rice, wheat and corn.
The potato is grown in more countries than any crop but corn, about in 125 countries throughout the world.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s largest potato weigh is 18 pounds, 4 ounces.

More than one in ten potatoes produced in the U.S. is exported.
Europeans consume twice as many potatoes as Americans per year.
A quarter of all the potatoes that are grown in Britain are made into chips – that’s around 1.5 million tonnes each year
Namibians each eat an average of 110 kilograms of potatoes every year – not quite as much as the Germans consume.
Potatoes are second only to milk as the most consumed food in America.
Religious leaders denounced the potato because it wasn’t mentioned in the Bible.
In 1778 Prussia and Austria fought the Potatoe War in which each side tried to starve the other by consuming their potatoe crop.
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of the 1890′s, potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded them for gold.
In 1995, the potato was the first vegetable taken into space with the space shuttle Columbia. It was first time any food was ever grown in space.

Potatoes are celebrated with potato festivals in many countries through the world.

There are poptato festivals in US as well then you can find to visit the nearest one:
Wayland New York Potato Festival
North Carolina Potato Festival
Spring Valley, Ohio Potato Festival
Posen, Michigan Potato Festival
Mantua, Ohio Potato Festival
Savannah PotatoFest
Manhattan Montana Potato Festival

We had food design competition in our office and took 3-th place with this picture.

It is made from wafers, different kind of candies and bread.

I love the idea when a restaurant obliges its diners to eat up or be fined and leave! The Wafu, a small 30-seat restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills introduces a 30 percent discount for diners who eat all the food they have ordered otherwise they get a penalty and not return. Chef of restaurant Yukako Ichikawa describes it as “guilty free Japanese cuisine.” “To contribute toward creating a sustainable future we request a little more of our guests than most other restaurants,” she says in a list of her restaurant’s policies that is pinned on the door to the eatery, Reuters reported.

This list of rules includes finishing all dishes ordered which are organic and free of gluten, dairy, sugar and eggs and the chef and her staff tell people who don’t clear their plates to choose another restaurant next time.
“Finishing your meal requires that everything is eaten except lemon slices, gari (sushi ginger) and wasabi,” says the menu.
“Please also note that vegetables and salad on the side are NOT decorations; they are part of the meal too.”

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If you are chocolate lover there are great number Chocolate events around the world you have chance to injoy. Do you know that a new study found that the risk of death from heart disease is about three times lower in heart attack survivors who eat chocolate at least two or more times a week compared with those who do not. That’s truth, therefore

Chocolate Challenge
February 6-7, 2010; City Hall Atrium, 10455 Armstrong Street
Applications are due by December 15. Click here for 2010 Chocolate Challenge Rules and Regulations.
Sponsored by the Independence Day Celebration Committee. Click here for information.

Description: A gallery of art and cakes made entirely of chocolate created by professionals and amateurs alike. Both judges and visitors will have an opportunity to judge the entries in numerous categories. Donated cakes and other items will be open for silent auction bidding. Past celebrity judges for this event include Warren Brown of CakeLove, Love Café and the Food Network’s Sugar Rush; Norman R. Davis and Zane Beg of The Sweet Life in Annandale, Va., who have appeared on multiple Food Network challenges; and City of Fairfax Mayor Robert F. Lederer.

Taste of Chocolate
February 6-7, 2010; Old Town Hall, 3999 University Drive
Applications are due by October 31. Click here for 2010 Taste of Chocolate Rules and Regulations.

Description: Surround yourself with hundreds of the finest chocolate sensations area confectioners have to offer! Goodies to sample include cakes, candies, brownies, fudge, ice cream and other delicious concoctions.