Full name: The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

Author: Larry Zuckerman Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Culture: Ireland Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780865475786 0865475784

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. Similar books: Food in History by Reay Tannahill Near a Thousand Tables by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe Potato by John Reader From Hardtack to Home Fries by Barbara Haber Why We Eat What We Eat by Raymond Sokolov Food by Jean-Louis Flandrin The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser Spice by Jack Turner Moveable Feasts by Sarah Murray A Movable Feast by Kenneth F. Kiple The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny The Making of Ireland by James Lydon A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Rubicon by Tom Holland