The Potato
Sheila Dillon on how the potato changed the world, and might shape our food future.
The Food Programme · BBC Radio 4
April 23, 201728m 19s
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Show Notes
Sheila Dillon digs up the remarkable story of how potatoes changed the world, offer a whole spectrum of flavour, and might shape our food future.
With Sheila are cook and food writer Anna Jones, Charles C. Mann - author of '1493 - How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth', and the potato revolutionary and agronomist Alan Wilson.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Rich Ward.