Tag: potato
Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
by Henry Hobhouse From the publisher: A personal and highly original take on the history of six commercial plants, Seeds of Change illuminates how sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine, […]
Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
by Larry Zuckerman From the publisher: The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as […]
Potato: A Global History
by Andrew F. Smith From the publisher: From its obscure pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to […]
Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine probably came from South America
Phytophthora infestans, the fungus responsible for the Irish potato famine of 1846 that killed an estimated one million people, probably originated in South America. That’s the conclusion researchers from North Carolina […]
Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
by John Reader From the publisher: 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 […]
Great Irish Potato Famine
by James S. Donnelly Jr. From the publisher: This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine which resulted in the death of […]
Black Potatoes: the story of the Irish potato famine
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti From the publisher: In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food […]
Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
by John Kelly From the publisher: In this masterful, comprehensive account of the Irish Potato Famine, delivered with novelistic flair, Kelly gives us not only the startling facts of this disaster–one of […]
Great Famine: The History of the Irish Potato Famine during the Mid-19th Century
by Charles River Editors From the publisher: Anyone who has ever heard of “the luck of the Irish” knows that it is not something to wish on someone, for few people […]