The Potatoes Of South America
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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.
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.
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 | : 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.
Author | : Maria Kijac |
Publisher | : Harvard Common Press |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 2003-09-10 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1558325395 |
Award-winning collection of 450 authentic recipes from South America. Maria Baez Kijac is an experienced guide to this culinary journey through South America. Each recipe is clearly written, and the myriad flavors beckon the adventurous to try one recipe after another. In addition, Maria is a talented teacher, and her sections on technique will help new students of this cuisine master the dishes with ease and satisfaction. This will be the definitive word on South American food for years to come.†? - Art Smith, author of Back to the Table
Author | : David Bollier |
Publisher | : Commons Strategy Group and Off the Common Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1937146839 |
What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these questions and probes the inner complexities of this timeless social paradigm. The book surveys some of the most notable, inspiring commons around the world, from alternative currencies and open design and manufacturing, to centuries-old community forests and co-learning commons - and dozens of others. David Bollier (www.bollier.org) is an American author, activist and independent scholar who has studied the commons for nearly twenty years. Silke Helfrich (commonsblog.wordpress.com) is a German author and independent activist of the commons who blogs at www.commonsblog.de, and cofounder of the Commons-Institut in Germany. With Michel Bauwens, Bollier and Helfrich are cofounders of the Common Strategies Group. For more information, go to the book's website, Patterns of Commoning (www.patternsofcommoning.org)
Author | : David M. Spooner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Potatoes |
ISBN | : |
Taxonomic monograph; sections on taxonimic history, exploration for potatoes, morphology, breeding systems, hybridization, relationships, distribution, uses, taxonomy (keys, full synonymies and descriptions), bibliography.
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 | : Douglas E. Horton |
Publisher | : International Potato Center |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780813371979 |
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.