The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World TRV011000 Written by Mike McGovern

Written by Mike McGovern

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Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era

The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World TRV011000 Written by Mike McGovernThe 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