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Author: John Reader Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300153996 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.
Author: John Reader Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300153996 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.
Author: Douglas E. Horton Publisher: International Potato Center ISBN: 9780813371979 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
This book summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and use and uses findings to propose planning for agricultural research and development for crop improvement programmes.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices Publisher: ISBN: Category : Potatoes Languages : en Pages : 84
Author: John Reader Publisher: ISBN: 9780300171457 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 315
Book Description
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. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Potatoes Languages : en Pages : 96
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 Languages : en Pages : 246
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Potatoes Languages : en Pages : 98
Author: John Reader
Author: John Reader
Author: Douglas E. Horton
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices
Author: John Reader
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations