Potato Paradise, Peru and worldwide. My Museum Wishlist - the Idaho Potato Museum, USA, and potato museums in Canada and Poland

Idaho Potato Museum, in Blackfoot, Idaho, USA.
 

I love potatoes. More than rice and pasta. I love potatoes. I grew up in the UK when in postwar Britain the shops advertised meat and two ve and one of the vegetables was potato (now counted as a starch.)

Potato Dishes

What do I love? In England I would have roast potatoes with a Sunday lunch, in Jewish restaurants potato latke (like the Swiss rosti and American has fries. 

What else? First and foremost, saute potatoes. For health, and speed or rather speed ad ease of preparation, baked potatoes in their jackets.

Every UK supermarket has lots of potatoes all year. Starting with new potatoes  my least favourite.

Where are the potato museums.

The USA - Idaho.

Also Canada.

The Canadian Potato Museum.

POLAND

The potato is the symbol of Poznan. The  Potato Museums's guided tour starts with visitors preparing a potato dish with spices. and ends with the visitor eating it. 

Poland also has a monument to the potato on the north west coast at Biesiekierz. I had trouble spelling and typing the names, until I realized it was i before e three times..

Monument to the potato at Biesiekierz, Poland. More details in Wikipedia.

Where can you eat and find potatoes?

Potato festivals are held all over the world, including the USA and Ireland.

Vending machines for cooked potatoes have been seen in Belgium, Canada, Israel, Singapore, and other countries.  

Potato dishes for travellers to try world wide include savoury potatoes and desserts, admittedly mostly made with sweet potatoes.:

UK, especially England

Fish and chips

INDIAN (in Indian restaurants in the UK and Singapore)

Aloo ghobi

Sag aloo (spinach and potato. Aloo is potato.\

USA

Baked potatoes in their jackets (Also called jacket potatoes.)

McDonalds.

UK

Fish and chip shops.

McDonalds fries

Potato crisps (called chips in the USA)

In which countries and places can travellers find potatoes?

BELGIUM

French fries.called Frites

France

Pommes Dauphinoise

 Useful Websites

https://www.foodrepublic.com/1294946/things-you-didnt-know-about-potatoes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potato_museums

https://www.idahopotatomuseum.com/

For foodies!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_and_beverage_museums

CANADA

https://potatomuseum.com/ (Canada)

https://canadianpotatomuseum.com/

Also in Canada an advertising sculpture of the Big Potato Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Potato_Man

POLAND

https://its-poland.com/attraction/potato-museum-of-poznan

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/potato-monument-pomnik-ziemniaka

WORLDWIDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potato_dishes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fry_vending_machine

DIY Potato recipes

https://www.marksandspencer.com/c/food-and-wine/cooking/recipes/potatoes-recipes/

https://www.thelittleepicurean.com/purple-sweet-potato-pie-bars/

Using the book Naturally Delicious desserts.

Potato Food

Tesco's website for the UK offers Maris Piper potatoes, all rounder potatoes, new potatoes, mashed potatoes and peeled potatoes.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/260999122

Potato Gifts

Crochet Potato ball with message

https://www.temu.com/uk/1pc-mini-funny-positive-potato-cute-wool-crochet-knitted-potato-toy-party-favor-gifts-knitted-plush-potatoes-birthday-christmas-decoration-encourage-positive-energy-

Key ring motif potato with message

https://www.temu.com/uk/cute-acrylic-potato-keychain-with-tassel-double-sided-emotional-support-appreciation-gift

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Hemingway happiness, horrors and places to visit - and a six word story challenge

 

Hemingway House

The top Hemingway attraction is the museum at Key West. He had a menagerie of animals. Including the famous Hemingway cats. He also travelled around the world.

Hemingway History & Books

I saw a film based on a Hemingway book about a soldier who falls in love with a nurse. The whole things made no sense. After reading that the author himself fell in love with a nurse, but she later married somebody else, and that Hemingway was recruited as a spy, this unlikely jumbled work of supposed fiction turns out to be based on fact and makes more sense.

I had also wondered why Hemingway was honoured by a statue in Cuba. Now I know he lived there and was honoured.  Although he met Castro only once, they admired each other.

Hemingway\s house answers some queetions and poses others. He killed animals but kept many animals. For examples, six toed cats renamed Hemingway cats.

Travel Landmarks to Look For, For Hemingway Fans

Whether you are amazed and awed or appalled, you cannot help being interested in Hemingway. As a writer I love the story about the six word story challenge. He is often quoted as having answered this challenge, but during his lifetime it was not recorded, and it was found  to have been used years earlier by others. 

The Six Word Story Challenge

The challenge is, write A novel summed up in six words? For sale, baby shoes, never worn. 

I could easily write another similar to that. For sales, small gun, used once.

Alternatively

For sale, gun, one careful owner.

Gun. Used once. One careless owner.

For sale. Gun and five bullets.

For sale, small house, distress sale.

Discount, murder victim's ouse for sale.

Missing millionaire's house for wale. Executors.

For sale. Wedding dress. Never worn.

For sale. Wedding dress. Worn twice.

What about a five word story.

For sale. Diary. Christmas gift. Unused..

For sale. Thirties car. Never driven.

For sale. Wooden coffin. Not needed.

For sale. Left shoes. Never worn. 

For sale, tomb, book cancer recovery.

For sale, fake banknotes, offers invited.

Missing, fiance named John, numerous aliases.

Wanted. Man with machinegun. Don't approach.

For sale. Titanic lifeboat. Not seaworthy.

Discount. Groom's outfit with bullet holes.

For sale smiling Mummy. Maybe fake.

For sale,haunted church, empty graveyard.

Clothes for quadruplets, or four twins.

Identical twins seek part time work.

Heminsgway's home in Florida, USA

Statue of Hemingway in Cuba

Maybe you can pick up some moere six word story ideas or title on your travels.

Useful Websites

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Anne Frank Sites To Visit in Amsterdam and Around the world

Memorial to the Anne Frank tree, Russell Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Mural showing Anne Frank. Pastorplatz, Aachen, Germany. Achen, Pastorplatz 1. 

Stolperstein (stepping stones) in Aachen for Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith.

Statue of Anne Frank, Westermarkt, near the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Marot Frank and Anne Frank gravestone style memorial with star of David in Bergen Belsen, Germany.

Anne Frank mural, with blues, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Anne Frank statue.

English: Anne Frank lived with her family in a flat at Merwedeplein 37 before they "moved" in their hiding place. This statue of her is standing on the square. The piece of art was created by Jet Schepp. Deutsch: Anne Frank lebte mit ihrer Familie in einer Wohnung am Merwedeplein 37 bevor sie in ihr Versteck im Hinterhaus fliehen mussten. Diese Statue von ihr steht auf dem Platz. Die Statue ist ein Kunstwerk von Jet Schepp.
Date	3 May 2019, 11:32:15
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Author	Citius Altius Fortius

Statue of Anne Frank with suitcase. Photo from author Maula.

Anne Frank, Amsterdam

Boise, Idaho, statue of Anne Frank looking through a curtain.

Memorial stones for Anne Frank, which appear as a star of David when viewed from the air. In Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Useful Websites

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ 

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/support-us/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_to_Anne_Frank

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_Anne_Frank

https://wanderwomenproject.com/places/anne-frank-statue-in-new-orleans/

Safety for everybody - preventing crime

Tragedy

In December 2022 a major story in the newspapers, especially the American sections, was the murders of Kaylee, Madison, Xana and Ethan.

Relief 

It was a great relief to hear that a suspect had been arrested.

Why?

Why did the criminal do it? I keep reading about murderers who are obsessed with other murderers and criminals who got away. This person seems to have studied criminals and their thinking and then started to think the same way. 

Criminology Studies

Maybe we should be making sure that every criminology study is framed or bookended by two stories of people who used their intelligence to cure sickness or save lives. Or people who regretted their crimes and devoted their lives to making amends. 

Prevention

What is being done to stop or help the potential criminal? To control criminals, criminal actions, criminal thoughts or crimes?

Samaritans

We have Samaritans to stop suicides. Viktor Frankl succeeded in this, despite the example in front of him of hate and killing. 

Possible Prevention Helplines

We need a helpline to stop people who are divorced or homeless or bullied or bored from committing crimes and to give them another purpose in life. 

Books

Maybe every publisher of books on killers should be required to end with stories from the victims  families, from those who overcame the urge to kill, who regretted it, or avoided it, and a message to others that killing wastes somebody else's life, as well as your own.

Blogs

Even blogs like this one should end on a happier note. Instead of the lives of murderers, for every book and sentence we should write a sentence praising the victims and praising the work of the police who caught a criminal and prevented other possible crimes.

Useful Websites

Samaritans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11589659/Bryan-Kohberger-went-teaching-University-Idaho-murders.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11586269/Parents-Idaho-victim-Kaylee-Goncalves-feel-incredible-relief-arrest-Bryan-Kohberger.html

Many countries have other names but have several phone lines for instant round the clock help for those who are troubled and want help. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans_(charity)

Visit The Potato Museum, Idaho, USA or potato museums in Bruges and other places

Angela Lansbury holding an Idaho potato promotional toy. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

I was given this charming soft toy at the ProWine fair in Singapore. I love potatoes. Baked potatoes in their jackets are best when you are on a diet.

Wikipedia gives a comprehensive history of the Mr Potato game and how it developed.

You can go onto the potato museum website and see what is in their gift shop. They have a patch, a magnet, mugs with a giant potato on a truck (in England we say lorry) and a poster with Marilyn Monroe.

The Potato Museum, Idaho, USA. From Wikipedia.

You can eat in the potato cafe. 

Wikipedia says
in 2016, the museum renovated the baggage claim area of the depot which was used for storage and opened the Potato Station Café. The café serves baked potatoes, French fries and other potato-themed foods such as potato bread, potato cupcakes, and chocolate dipped potato chips.

Bloggers can find more than 600 recipes!

You can also see a museum about French fries in Bruges, Belgium.

The Mr Potato head toy (with several parts) is for ages 2 and up.

Useful Websites

USA

Idaho Potato Museum, Blackfoot, Idaho.

https://idahopotatomuseum.com/mr-potato-head/ 

https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/the-difference-between-idaho-potatoes-and-russet

WORLDWIDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Potato_museums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Food_and_drink_museums

RECIPES

https://idahopotato.com/recipes/tag/blogger

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Idaho ho ho's potato novelties, dogged dog hotel and cleaning museum

Idaho is called the gem state. Its motto is in perpetuity. They are expecting a partial eclipse Aug 21 2017 and you can read about it on the state website. What else amazing or amusing is in Idaho-ho-ho?

Problem
I've been everywhere, almost everywhere I actually want to go. What else can I put on my wish list, whilst I am still healthy enough in mind and body to travel?

Where can I be guaranteed to get potatoes? America. Yay! I remember going to places which served steak and a baked potato in its jacket, one standard dish for a reasonable price. Before the advent of potato wedges. (I'm so fed up with rice in Asia and pizza and pasta and bread in London. In Asia you could only eat potatoes smothered in unhealthy taste-killing curry. As for potato salad - yuk. )
1 Why go to Idaho?
2 Where to go in Idaho?

Answers
1 Makes a change. Never been there before. I like potatoes.

2 At least three novelties like nowhere else:
Potato Museum with novelties (Idaho Potato Museum).
Dog shape hotel. I like dogs. I don't have dogs, because I travel a lot. But I find them cute and friendly. I like novelty hotels, preferably clean hotels.
Museum of Clean. Yup, that's me.

Details
Idaho Potato Museum
Great Amusements and Great Buys In The Gift Shop
I went straight to the shop. What can I buy? A book of recipes, with the cover and the book itself potato shape. Playing cards - potato shape!

Then I checked out the cafe. You can eat baked potatoes in their jackets but must order two hours in advance. So I presume that's a proper potato, an old fashioned potato, not a microwave imitation.You can also eat baked potato cupcake and baked potato ice cream.

I hope they washed the potatoes before cooking them. I am rather fussy about cleanliness. So, let's move on to -

The Museum of Clean
The first amusement is the entrance in the shape of a washboard.  Inside you'll find all kinds of brooms and vacuum cleaners. Expect tips on cleaning carpets. Novelties: - the soldier's use of his helmet for washing.

Great Amusements and Great Buys in The Gift Shop
Yes, they do have a shop. It's not on the website's main menu bar but a sub-section on about the museum. Novelties for all ages include novel ties. For fun-loving families and fathers, a washboard tie which plays music. For clean children - a bath tub for a teddy bear!

The Dog Shaped Hotel
One reason I am cautious about fulfilling my dream of owning a dog is the idea of cleaning up dog poo. However, the dog shape hotel was what caught my eye when an email came in from the tourist promotion people. The email sat in inbox for several hours and I could not bear to move it without reading it. That memorable picture survived several email culling attempts which reduced my inbox from nearly a hundred emails to under forty. (I aim at ten.)

The main attraction is the shape of the place - like an upright standing on four legs dog.

What else is memorable? In the bedroom, dogs carved across the headboard.

This amusing accommodation is small. It sleeps only four.

Absolute novelty. How much and are they fully booked?

What I don't know is, er, um, hate to say this, but where is Idaho? I went to Wikipedia, then took a short cut to simple wikipedia. On the map, Idaho's outline looks like a drunken triangle, leaning left towards the west coast, with its tip cut off by Canada.

Practical Details
Dog Bark Park in - Beagle bed and breakfast.

Other Accommodation
Only three hotels in Blackfoot, going up to three stars; more in Idaho Falls, again the highest rated was 3 stars. However, with one hotel offering a free shuttle to the airport, an indoor swimming pool and a business centre, sounds good to me.

What else is there in Idaho? Waterfalls, geysers, hot springs, water parks, skiing, birds of prey, outdoors activities and events. Trips and trails include visiting ghost towns and silver mines, whisky wine and beer producers.

https://visitidaho.org/trip-guides/10-wildest-wines-beers-spirits-idaho/

Further reading
Websites:
https://idahopotatomuseum.com

Idaho Potato Museum
130 Northwest Main Street
Blackfoot, ID 83221 USA.

ID does not mean identity. It is short for Idaho.
Email: Info@IdahoPotatoMuseum.com


More websites:
https://visitidaho.org

Books
Only In America

I hope to see Idaho at World Travel Market and make a trip to visit the state, soon. I shall put them on my list of New Year Resolutions. Visit Idaho.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Anne Frank Memorial Park, Blaise, Idaho and other memorials

You think you know almost everything there is to know on a subject, but more facts emerge or more artwork is created. Wandering from subject to subject on the internet, you make happy discoveries - serendipity. I've been researching for a book of quotations and I was on the inventor of Braille, Loouis Brialle, born in January, died in January. I started looking for people who were born on the same day. The writer of a post on that subject sent me off on a search on ten facts you didn't know about Anne Frank. Then I thought, I'll check memorials to her. I found delightful pictures of statues and memorials all over the world.

I have so far found these:
1 Statue of Anne Frank in Westermarkt, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands.
2 Inscription on her saying in Harrow Civic Centre, Harrow, Middx, NW London, England, UK.
3 Anne Frank walkway in Anne Frank Memorial Park, Blaise, Idaho, USA. Bronze statue of Anne standing on a chair to wave.


(I'll update this later today. Come back.)