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The Google Doodle featured a cutting board with potato skins and a mound of flour spelling out the word Google. "Eva discovered the starch was humble but mighty – potatoes could be ground into ...

Google said: “The Swedish scientist brought potatoes, then a greenhouse curiosity, to the people. "Eva discovered the starch was humble but mighty – potatoes could be ground into flour or ...

Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and agronomist who discovered how to extract starch from potatoes, paving the way for gluten-free baking and alcohols such as vodka, moonshine and potato wine.

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That's where Eva Ekeblad, the subject of Monday's Google Doodle, comes in. The Swedish scientist, who was born 293 years ago on on Monday—she died in 1786—discovered that potatoes could be ...

Few people know which variety of potato they are putting on their plate, new research reveals. The Potato Tracker project found that potatoes were the most popular item on consumers' fruit and ...

Potatoes, up until this point, were pretty much the amusement of highborn hobbyists like Ekeblad. They'd been available in Sweden less than a century, and they hadn't really caught on as a food yet.

Eva Ekeblad would be celebrating her 293rd birthday ... Sciences on her discoveries of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes. Her work paved the way for gluten-free baking and alcohols ...

Tasmania's iconic big potato has fallen down after damage from a truck and high winds. Fondly known as Kenny the Kennebec, the spud was built 40 years ago by the family of Tasmanian Premier Jeremy ...