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Potato

Title
Potato / Rebecca Earle.
Author
Earle, Rebecca
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

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TextUse in library TX803.P8 E27 2019Off-site

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Description
132 pages : illustrations; 17 cm
Summary
Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop). To 18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine.
Series Statement
Object lessons
Uniform Title
Object lessons
Subject
  • Potatoes > History
  • Potatoes > Social aspects
  • Food and Drink
  • Potatoes
  • Kartoffel
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Potato mother -- Global citizens -- The state of the potato -- Pleasure and responsibility -- Potato philosophy.
ISBN
  • 9781501344312
  • 1501344315
  • 9781501344336 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501344343 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501344329 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2018061717
OCLC
  • on1081337767
  • 1081337767
  • SCSB-9334896
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library