Most people shout “root!” without a second thought. They’re wrong. Deliciously, gloriously wrong. The potato is a stem, not a root.
I know. It feels like a betrayal. A root grows down, a stem grows up—potatoes hang out underground. But biology doesn’t care about your feelings.
It’s all about the eyes. Those little dimples on a potato are buds. Real roots don’t have buds. You’re holding a stem that got seriously lost on the way to the sun.
