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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...
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Bloombury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Object lessons
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| 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. |
| Item Description: | Reprinted 2019. |
| Carrier Form: | 132 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501344312 (paperback) : 1501344315 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | TX803 |
| CLC: |
S532-05 S532-09 |
| Call Number: | S532-09/E123 |
| Contents: | Potato mother -- Global citizens -- The state of the potato -- Pleasure and responsibility -- Potato philosophy. |