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ALINGSAS, Sweden, -- Representatives from Sweden's potato industry said they are celebrating Potato Day with a work of art created from eight varieties of spuds.
Margareta Frost-Johansson of Academia Solanum Tuberosum, the Alingsas potato academy, said artist Emma Karp Lundstrom was hired to create the 16-foot by 8-foot potato collage for Tuesday's potato celebration, The Local reported Tuesday.
"We want to promote the potato in all its forms -- culinary, cultural and now artistic," Frost-Johansson said. "We have recruited Emma Karp Lundstrom to strike a blow for the potato on Potato Day."
The potato academy, which created Potato Day, was formed in 2008 by representatives of the industry to promote Swedish spuds.
