Potatoes are Cheaper
Author | : Max Shulman |
Publisher | : Michael Joseph |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780718110659 |
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Author | : Max Shulman |
Publisher | : Michael Joseph |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1973 |
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ISBN | : 9780718110659 |
Author | : Max Shulman |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504027868 |
A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis It’s the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. The self-declared “best humpers in St. Paul,” they haven’t quite figured out how to make their talents pay. But that’s all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris’s mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris’s cousin Crip, a stay-at-home genius who sublimates his sex drive into song. Within a day, Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise. But then an Irish Catholic beauty falls under the spell of Crip’s verse and goes gaga over Morris. She thinks he’s a Jewish-Communist revolutionary poet, and who is he to tell her otherwise? But is it happiness Morris truly wants, or money? And what will Mama Katz say?
Author | : Douglas E. Horton |
Publisher | : International Potato Center |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780813371979 |
This book summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and use and uses findings to propose planning for agricultural research and development for crop improvement programmes.
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Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : John Reader |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Potato industry |
ISBN | : 0099474794 |
From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for MacDonalds chips, via Mrs Beeton, Charles Darwin, Lenin and Chairman Mao, to the mapping of the potato genome, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating.
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Release | : 1942 |
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Author | : John Reader |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0300153996 |
The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.
Author | : david william |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1809 |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Protectionism |
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A monthly magazine of political science and industrial progress.
Author | : John Reader |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780300171457 |
Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text.