Abstract
First cultivated in the Andean Mountains of South America about 7,000 years ago, the potato fed the great Inca Empire and their Spanish conquerors. The potato became a staple of the sailors' diet because it prevented scurvy. Germany and the British Isles eventually incorporated potatoes into their diet. This program looks at how the potato fed an expanding population that provided workers for the Industrial Revolution, how it caused a population explosion in Ireland and then killed a million Irish when the crop failed, and follows the resulting immigration of a million Irish to America.
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Subject
Series
Burt Wolf : what we eat
Contributors
Wolf, Burton (Host), Colicchio, Michael (Film editor), Edelman, Laurie (Producer), Ziegler, Nancy (Producer), McCool, Caroline (Producer), Aronson, Emily (Executive producer), Ambrose Video Publishing (Distributor), Acorn Associates (Producer), ConAgra, inc. (Producer), Kentucky Educational Television (Producer)
Duration
00:26:45 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
Agriculture students, World history students
Copyright Holder
| Name | Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. |
| Role | Distributor |
| Telephone | 1-888-802-6715 |
| Address | 3065 High St., Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 |
| [email protected] |
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