The Potato

How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

Nonfiction, Food & Drink, Food Writing, History
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Author: Larry Zuckerman ISBN: 9781466812437
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: October 25, 1999
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Larry Zuckerman
ISBN: 9781466812437
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: October 25, 1999
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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.

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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.

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