The Potatoes of South America

The Potatoes of South America
Author: Carlos M. Ochoa
Publisher: International Potato Center
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2004
Genre: Potatoes
ISBN: 9789290601982

This major work presents a biosystematic analysis of wild potatoes of Peru. It represents more than three decades of the work by the author in the International Potato Center. In addition to a description of the taxa, the book includes drawings of the various species, floral dissections, habitat photos and distribution maps. The distinguished artist and plant pathologist, Dr. Franz Frey, made the watercolor paintings.

Potato

Potato
Author: John Reader
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0300153996

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.

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?

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 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 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.

The South American Table

The South American Table
Author: Maria Kijac
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2003-09-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1558322485

This book has 450 authentic recipes from 10 countries for everything from tamales, ceviches, and empanadas that are popular across the continent to specialties that define individual cuisines.

Taxonomy of Wild Potatoes in Northern South America (Solanum Section Petota)

Taxonomy of Wild Potatoes in Northern South America (Solanum Section Petota)
Author: David M. Spooner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Solanum
ISBN: 9781943751082

Solanum section Petota., which includes the cultivated potato (S. tuberosum) and its wild relatives, is distributed from the southwestern United States to central Argentina, Uruguay, and adjacent Chile. This taxonomic treatment includes all wild species of section Petota from northern South America, which includes Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is the last of five taxonomic treatments of a monophyletic potato + tomato + section Etuberosum clade, including treatments of 1) wild potatoes from North and Central America, 2) wild potatoes from southern South America, and the close outgroup section Etuberosum, 3) cultivated potatoes, and 4) wild tomatoes. Wild species of section Petota include diploids (2n = 24), triploids (2n = 36), tetraploids (2n = 48), and hexaploids (2n = 72), with all of these levels represented in northern South America. We here recognize 60 species from section Petota in this region and partition them into five species groups, recognizing only about half of the species from northern South America relative to the most recent taxonomic treatments by J.G. Hawkes and C.M. Ochoa. We summarize recent morphological and molecular studies of species limits and their interrelationships, and provide a key to the species, descriptions, synonymies (including designations of lectotypes), illustrations, localities, disease resistances, and distribution maps for all species.

Knack South American Cooking

Knack South American Cooking
Author: Liz Caskey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0762766077

South America still conjures images of the Andes, the Amazon, and Patagonia, to be sure, but today it is also known for its remarkably varied cuisines—which, along with its value-driven quality wines, have taken gourmands well beyond Mexico and Latin America. Enter Knack South American Cooking, a visually sumptuous and informative, step-by-step guide to recreating the continent’s predominant authentic flavors in the home kitchen. Covering Peru, Brazil, and countries further south, such as Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, it brings together 350 savory recipes—everything from ceviche to creamy yucca prawns, as well as grilled meats and classic dishes like hearty black bean stew. 350 full-color photos -100 recipes -250 variations Appetizers * Empanadas * Stews * Salads & Vegetables * Poultry * Beef * Pork * Seafood Grilled Meats * Sauces * Desserts