This Spud's For You

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Arts, Science, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Fried, roasted, mashed, steamed: it's hard to imagine life without the crispy, fluffy comfort blanket of potatoes. But until the late 1500s, no one outside the Americas had ever encountered this terrific tuber, and initially Europeans, particularly peasant farmers, didn't trust it at all. Or did they? This episode, we tell the story of the potato's rise to global dominance once it set sail from its native Andean home—and the stories behind that story! From tax evasion and population explosions to soup kitchens and potato bling, listen in now as Rebecca Earle, author of the new book, Feeding the People, helps us uncover the delightful myths and even more incredible true history of the spud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Bake potato change my life.
0:34.2	Bake potato show me the way.
0:37.2	If you want to know what is wrong from right,
0:41.2	you must listen to what potatoes.
0:43.6	That's right folks.
0:44.8	This episode, we are listening to what potato has to say.
0:49.2	And potato has a lot to say.
0:51.4	It's been, yes, changing lives and showing the way for thousands of years.
0:55.6	You are, of course, listening to Gastropod,
0:57.6	the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.
1:00.2	I'm Cynthia Graber.
1:01.2	And I'm Nicolette Willie and whether it's fried, mashed, steamed or roasted,
1:06.0	I love potatoes as food.
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