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Potato : a history of the propitious esculent / John Reader.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2009Description: xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300141092
  • 0300171455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780300141092
  • 9780300171457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): 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: "This delightful book tells the history of the potato, from its origins in Incan gardens thousands of years ago to its place on a NASA manned rocket destined for Mars. Less humble than it may seem, the potato has played a crucial role in human history wherever people have embraced it as a staple food."--Back cover.

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

Printed on acid-free paper.

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

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.

"This delightful book tells the history of the potato, from its origins in Incan gardens thousands of years ago to its place on a NASA manned rocket destined for Mars. Less humble than it may seem, the potato has played a crucial role in human history wherever people have embraced it as a staple food."--Back cover.

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