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Feeding the People is out now!

Feeding the People is out now!

Jun 25, 2020 | News, Potatoes, Publication

My latest book, Feeding the People, has been published today by Cambridge University Press.

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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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