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ORIGINALLY PICKED UP the Spaniards in South America, the Ozette potato came on ships sent to establish beachheads on the west coast of America. One fort was built on the northwestern tip of what is now Washington state, where the Pacific meets mouth of the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
The native people of the area, members of the Makah tribe, found the potatoes in the overgrown gardens of the settlement and propagated them, naming this new food after one of the five villages in the area of Neah Bay.
Because of the relative isolation of the region, these small, flavorful fingerlings maintained their unique heritage and weren’t known to the outside world until the 1980s.
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