What did? What did the first Chinese Emperor Quinn, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great,

Genghis Khan, and the Queen of Sheba, and all the contemporaries who lived when they did have in common?

None of them ever ate a potato. The potato is a rather new addition to the diets of the old world and one which revolutionized civilization.

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Today's audiobook recommendation is The Untold History of the Potato by John Reader. The potato, humble, lumpy, bland familiar

is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? From domestication in

Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop,

the potato has played a starring, or at least supporting role, in many chapters of human history.

Whether embraced as the solution to hunger

or wielded as a weapon of exploitation,

blamed for famine and death,

or recognized for spring progress,

the potato has often changed the course of human events.

Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed.

It may just be a humble vegetable, John Reader shows,

yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull. You can get a

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