Potato a history of the propitious esculent - Reader, John (Yale Univ. Press, 2009)
Previously published as Propitious esculent by William Heinemann in 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index
South America -- To Mars from the Andes -- What exactly is a potato? -- Domestication -- Whence have they come? -- A dainty dish -- Europe -- The lonely impulse of delight -- The way it was -- The demoralising esculent -- Where the praties grow -- Sees of famine -- Woe the sons of Adam! -- The world -- The fatal malady -- Co-opting science -- Men on a mission -- Global voyage -- Developing worlds -- for the price of apples