Potato Earle Rebecca University of Warwick UKPaperback softback
Potato Earle Rebecca University of Warwick UKPaperback softback Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Baked potatoes, Bombay…
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Potato Earle Rebecca University of Warwick UKPaperback softback
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop). everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean?
Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. To 18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine.What stories lie behind the ordinary potato?
The potato is entangled with the birth of the liberal state and the idea that individuals, rather than communities, should form the building blocks of society. Potatoes also speak about family, and our quest for communion with the universe. Thinking about potatoes turns out to be a good way