[PDF.60ec] Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History

Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History

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 | #6687598 in Books |  2008-05-06 |  2008-05-06 | Format: International Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 315 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Could have been titled "Potato Vignettes"|By Ursiform|The rather pompous title, "Propitious Esculent" (in the UK edition--looks like they will change it for the US edition) provides a bit of a warning up front. (It means "favorable edible thing", so you don't have to look it up.) This is not a book that draws you along, or really achieves a sense of story. But it you are intere| |"Praise for Cities: A fascinating account of how cities grow and sometimes crumble... Reader's magpie eye...picks out gems... Entertaining... Cities is, finally, a celebration of its subject's refusal to be explained or controlled." * Guardian * "Cities is vas

A highly readable exploration of the biology, history and social influence of our most humble and versatile foodstuff.

Baked, roasted, boiled, mashed, steamed, french-fried — the potato is one of the most familiar and ubiquitous foods we have, and part of our sense of humble, mundane normality. But the story of the solarum tuberosum is one of struggle, disease and survival.

Naturally fat-free, potatoes consist mainly of energy-giving carbohydrates, as...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History   |  John Reader. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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