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| Author | : Redcliffe N. Salaman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 772 |
| Release | : 1985-11-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521316231 |
A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mainstay of their diets.
| 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?
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Redcliffe Nathan Salaman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1949 |
| Genre | : Potatoes |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tom Standage |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2010-05-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0802719910 |
A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
| Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1882 |
| Release | : 2012-09-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317451600 |
This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, food preparation and regional cuisines, science and technology, nutrition and health, and trade and commerce, as well as key contemporary issues such as famine relief, farm subsidies, food safety, and the organic movement. Articles also include specific foodstuffs such as chocolate, potatoes, and tomatoes; topics such as Mediterranean diet and the Spice Route; and pivotal figures such as Marco Polo, Columbus, and Catherine de' Medici. Special features include: dozens of recipes representing different historic periods and cuisines of the world; listing of herbal foods and uses; and a chronology of key events/people in food history.
| 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.
| 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.
