Staple to superfood : a global history of the sweet potato /
"Food crops from the Americas, such as corn, potatoes, cassava, and peanuts, are widely acknowledged to have significantly improved the world's food supply. But few know that the potatoes Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe weren't white or Irish potatoes, but rather sweet pot...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- American origin and Oceanian diffusion
- A sweet connection between Europe and America
- Mundane or miracle? Feeding and fueling China's population
- Hunger food? Daily meals? Sweet potato in Japan and Korea
- Sweet potato islands, sweet potato peoples
- From "Asian crop" to "African crop": recent global expansions
- Epilogue.