How Potatoes Took Over the World

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Listener Taylor was making a medieval stew when she noticed a prominent ingredient was missing from the recipe: potatoes. Potato biologist Maria Scurrah and journalist Charles Mann explain the potato’s twisting route to stewpot domination. Special thanks to Graham Thiele, Bruce Owen, Alan Covey, and Gary Urton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've reached the every little thing helpline.
0:05.0	Please leave the message after the tone.
0:07.0	Hussah!
0:08.0	Hey!
0:09.0	I'm married to a guy very into medieval things, so we're working our way through some
0:14.0	medieval cookbooks and that's the stew section.
0:18.0	All of a sudden a red flag was thrown up because there are no potatoes in any of the stews
0:25.0	or any of the other recipes.
0:28.0	And it kind of blew my mind.
0:30.0	And I want to know how the potato became everybody to be a hard vegetable.
0:37.0	Hello.
0:40.0	Hey, Taylor.
0:41.0	It's Flora from ELT.
0:42.0	Hi, Flora.
0:43.0	So, medieval cookbooks, huh?
0:46.0	How did you procure these?
0:48.0	How did they come into your life?
0:50.0	They came with my husband when we got married.
0:55.0	He is a medievalist, so we have a plethora of medieval literature in our house.
1:01.0	He's a medievalist.
1:03.0	Yeah, so he runs a business where he makes swords, armor, weaponry, leatherwork, you name it.
1:11.0	Okay, so he's like full-bore on medieval times.
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