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Potato /
- Title
- Potato / Rebecca Earle.
- Author
- Earle, Rebecca,
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloombury Academic, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TX803.P8 E27 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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
- 9781501344336 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501344343 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501344329 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018061717
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library