The Untold History of the Potato

Author: John Reader
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099474794
Category : Potato industry
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for MacDonalds chips, via Mrs Beeton, Charles Darwin, Lenin and Chairman Mao, to the mapping of the potato genome, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating.

Potato

Author: John Reader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300171457
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
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 foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text.

Potato Pants!

Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 125022599X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
A potato and his eggplant nemesis struggle to find the perfect pants in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of forgiveness by bestselling Geisel-Award winning creator Laurie Keller. Potato is excited because today—for one day only— Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store is selling . . .POTATO PANTS! Potato rushes over early, but just as he’s about to walk in, something makes him stop. What could it be? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story about misunderstandings and forgiveness, and—of course—Potato Pants! A Christy Ottaviano Book This title has Common Core connections.

The Complete Book of Potatoes

Author: Hielke De Jong
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929999
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
The only comprehensive resource for home gardeners and commercial potato growers, The Complete Book of Potatoes has everything a gardener or commercial potato grower needs to successfully grow the best, disease-resistant potatoes for North American gardens. Includes practical as well as technical information about the potato plant, its origin, conventional and organic production techniques, pest management, and storage practices. The plant profiles include still life photographs of the exterior and interior of the tuber, and a succinct description of each varietyÕs physical and culinary qualities.

The Great Potato Book

Author: Florence Fabricant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580081856
Category : Cookery (Potatoes)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Rescued from infamy by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 16th century, the potato has long since become the world's ultimate comfort food--endlessly versatile and always satisfying. "New York Times" food critic Fabricant puts the potato on a pedestal, as essays place the potato in a historical context, while over 50 recipes feature both classic and innovative preparations. Illustrations.

Williams-Sonoma Collection: Potato

Author: Selma Brown Morrow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743226828
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The Williams-Sonoma Collection offers cookbooks that are eye-catching and irresistible, and which appeal to both novice and experienced cooks. An essential addition to every kitchen bookshelf, "Potato" reveals the possibilities of the humble spud in 40 delightful recipes. Color photos.

The Potato Crop

Author: Hugo Campos
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030286835
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.

300 Best Potato Recipes

Author: Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 9780778802785
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The humble potato is a culinary powerhouse and inspires adventurous and tantalizing fare.

The Enormous Potato

Author: Aubrey Davis
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525308475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Energetic illustrations and a new voice put a fresh spin on a classic folk tale.

The Potato

Author: Larry Zuckerman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466812435
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
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.