The story of one of the world's most important food crops
John Reader is an author and photojournalist. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at UCL and is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographic Society.
As a staple of the global diet the potato is worth this digestible
book devoted to its biology, history and social influence
*The Times*
The most nourishing book of the month
*Guardian*
Traversing imperialism, politics, technology and diet, Reader's
elegantly written, discursive book weaves the progress of centuries
and continents together in the story of the potato's ascendancy
*Daily Telegraph*
This accessible account embraces the latest scholarship and
addresses the failings of previous works on the subject. Indeed the
book, like the tuber it describes, fills a void: the spud now has
the biography it deserves
*Economist*
Superb
*Sunday Times*
Each chapter is discrete in content and manner, yet densely
connected to the rest. Wonderful: to understand the whole world
through a single crisp
*Guardian*
John Reader's excellent history...his style has a playful sobriety
and a laudable disdain for cliché (he gets an extra star for never
once using the term 'the humble spud
*Time Out*
This enjoyably meandering history
*The New Yorker*
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