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Potato : a history of the propitious esculent / John Reader

By:

Reader, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press , 2009.Description: xvi, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780300171457

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

635.21 REA

LOC classification:

SB211.P8 R43 2009

Contents:

. South America -- . To Mars from the Andes -- . What exactly is a potato? -- . Domestication -- . Whence have they come? -- . A dainty dish -- . Europe -- . The lonely impulse of delight -- . The way it was -- . The demoralising esculent -- . Where the praties grow -- . Seeds of famine -- . Woe the sons of Adam! -- . The world -- . The fatal malady -- . Co-opting science -- . Men on a mission -- . Global voyage -- . Developing worlds -- . For the price of apples.

Summary: Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes.

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Originally published as: Propitious esculent. London : William Heinemann, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.

Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes.

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