The Untold History of the Potato

The Untold History of the Potato
Author: John Reader
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009
Genre: Potato industry
ISBN: 0099474794

From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for MacDonalds chips, via Mrs Beeton, Charles Darwin, Lenin and Chairman Mao, to the mapping of the potato genome, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating.

Potato

Potato
Author: John Reader
Publisher:
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2011
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780300171457

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.

The Complete Book of Potatoes

The Complete Book of Potatoes
Author: Hielke De Jong
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881929999

The only comprehensive resource for home gardeners and commercial potato growers, The Complete Book of Potatoes has everything a gardener or commercial potato grower needs to successfully grow the best, disease-resistant potatoes for North American gardens. Includes practical as well as technical information about the potato plant, its origin, conventional and organic production techniques, pest management, and storage practices. The plant profiles include still life photographs of the exterior and interior of the tuber, and a succinct description of each varietyÕs physical and culinary qualities.

The Potato Book

The Potato Book
Author: Alan Romans
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780711224797

Sharing his 'overwhelming enthusiasm for the humble spud' and a lifetime's experience in the seed potato industry, Alan Romans combines an engaging account of potato growing with an expert guide to potato varieties. The Potato Book traces the history of the potato from its beginnings in South America to the development of variety breeding. It explains all aspects of growing, from choosing seed potatoes, planting and maintenance, to harvest, storage, and pests and diseases. An exhaustive and definitive guide to over 150 varieties currently available in Europe provides scientifically based assessments of yield, characteristics, disease resistance. With descriptions too of varieties - mainly 'heritage' (pre-1950) - that have recently become available as microplants, it contains everything the potato grower needs to know.

The Enormous Potato

The Enormous Potato
Author: Aubrey Davis
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1525308475

Energetic illustrations and a new voice put a fresh spin on a classic folk tale.

Potato Pants!

Potato Pants!
Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 125022599X

A potato and his eggplant nemesis struggle to find the perfect pants in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of forgiveness by bestselling Geisel-Award winning creator Laurie Keller. Potato is excited because today—for one day only— Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store is selling . . .POTATO PANTS! Potato rushes over early, but just as he’s about to walk in, something makes him stop. What could it be? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story about misunderstandings and forgiveness, and—of course—Potato Pants! A Christy Ottaviano Book This title has Common Core connections.

The Potato

The Potato
Author: Larry Zuckerman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999-10-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1466812435

The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.

The Potato Book

The Potato Book
Author: Myrna Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1973
Genre: Cookbooks
ISBN: 9780688051860

Feeding the People

Feeding the People
Author: Rebecca Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108484069

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?

Williams-Sonoma Collection: Potato

Williams-Sonoma Collection: Potato
Author: Selma Brown Morrow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2002-11-14
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0743226828

The Williams-Sonoma Collection offers cookbooks that are eye-catching and irresistible, and which appeal to both novice and experienced cooks. An essential addition to every kitchen bookshelf, "Potato" reveals the possibilities of the humble spud in 40 delightful recipes. Color photos.