Potato : a history of the propitious esculent /

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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 fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reader, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2009.
Temas:
Potatoes.
Potatoes > History.
Food crops.
Solanum tuberosum
Pomme de terre.
Pomme de terre > Histoire.
Cultures vivrières.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
HISTORY > World.
Food crops
Potatoes
Aardappel.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Voedselgewassen.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • South America
  • To Mars from the Andes
  • What exactly is a potato?
  • Domestication
  • Whence have they come?
  • A dainty dish
  • Europe
  • The lonely impulse of delight
  • The way it was
  • The demoralising esculent
  • Where the praties grow
  • Sees of famine
  • Woe the sons of Adam!
  • The world
  • The fatal malady
  • Co-opting science
  • Men on a mission
  • Global voyage
  • Developing worlds
  • for the price of apples.

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