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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

Back in 1995, a group of  Australian researchers gave 240 calories’ worth of food to subjects who each ate one of 38 specific foods. They tracked how hungry the subjects got and developed a Satiety Index (using white bread as a benchmark, with a score of 100). The hands-down winner, with a Satiety Index of 323, was potatoes.

— Tamar Haspel, ‘Potatoes Get a Bad Rap. They Don’t Deserve It’, Washington Post 20 Jan. 2017
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