Item

First Potato Harvest

Title (Dublin Core)

First Potato Harvest

Description (Dublin Core)

I have been a home gardener for a few years now, and love to cook using the things from my garden. When Covid started to hit the US in late February/early March, the resulting panic resulted in widespread shortages in the grocery stores for many common items of American households. News reports consistently told us that food supply networks were in jeapordy. I had never grown potatoes before (though I have grown sweet potatoes), but I decided that for its nutritional value to space ratio, it would be worth growing potatoes this year. Thankfully, the media had seemingly overblown the shortage problem (at least in my area), but that didn't matter because I enjoyed growing potatoes and had a great harvest. My first dish I made with my homegrown potatoes (and homegrown carrots) was a delishous pot roast. I was able to include a glass of y homebrewed beer to complete the meal. Sitting down for this meal was certainly a bright spot during the pandemic and was the culmination of several months of labor and enjoyment.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 9, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Matt Williams

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Matthew Williams

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph
text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

cooking
garden
homebrew
hobby
food
beer
grocery
potato

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

home cooking
home garden
homebrew
Covid hobbies
pandemic cooking
foodislife

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/24/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/07/2021
02/25/2021
08/02/2022
09/17/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/09/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 24, 2021 by Matthew Williams using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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