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Research featured in the New York Times

Jul 20, 2020 | Health in the Early Modern World, News

My research was cited in the New York Times this week, in an article by Michael Snyder – ‘What We Eat During a Plague’. The article appears in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and can also be read online at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/t-magazine/eating-food-during-plague.html

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Potato Quote

Physical anthropologist Peter Lucas has calculated that the size of a tooth needed to make a crack in a cooked potato is 56 percent to 82 percent smaller than needed for a raw potato.

— Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Profile Books (London, 2010)
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