Potatoes reach their silver screen peak in this famed cameo from 'Lord of the Rings — The Two Towers."
NASA and the University of Wisconsin partner to make the potato the first vegetable grown in space.
Thomas Jefferson serves French-fried potatoes at the White House.
The Spanish Conquistadors invade Peru. They bring potatoes back to Europe.
The Inca in Peru are the first in the world to cultivate the potato.
