Dumont – Portrait of Antoine Parmentier. French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. From his return to Paris in 1763 he pursued his pioneering studies in nutritional chemistry. Potato fields won the prize on behalf of the potato in 1773.

Due largely to Parmentier’s efforts, the Paris Faculty of Medicine declared potatoes edible in 1772. Still, resistance continued, and Parmentier was prevented from using his test garden at the Invalides hospital, where he was pharmacist, by the religious community that owned the land, whose complaints resulted in the suppression of Parmentier’s post at the Invalides. In 1779, Parmentier was appointed to teach at the Free School of Bakery to help stabilize Paris’ food supply by making bread in a more cost-efficient fashion. In that same year, he published Manière de faire le pain de pommes de terre, sans mélange de farine, in which he described how one can make potato bread that still has all the characteristics of wheat bread. In 1800, Napoléon Bonaparte appointed him the first army pharmacist.

He succeeded Pierre Bayen: he continued his fight to place pharmacy on the same level as medicine and surgery. Parmentier then began a series of publicity stunts for which he remains notable today, hosting dinners at which potato dishes featured prominently and guests included Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier. In 1771, Parmentier won an essay contest in which all the judges voted the potato as the best substitute for ordinary flour. This was before a time when France needed a replacement for wheat, so Parmentier continued to face criticism and lack of acknowledgment for his work. Parmentier died on 13 December 1813, aged 76. President of the Pharmacy Society of Paris in 1803″. Potatoes were banned due to leprosy fears”.

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