The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World Condition:Good and politics – especially the

and politics – especially the politics of the home

which recognizes values

Judith Kelman

When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician

The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World Condition:Good and politics – especially theThe 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 unrecognizableperhaps impossiblewithout the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget