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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/85890| Title: | From reluctant acceptance to staple cash crop : the potato in nineteenth-century Malta |
| Other Titles: | The examined life : writings in honour of Guido Lanfranco |
| Authors: | Cassar, Carmel |
| Keywords: | Food habits -- Malta Diet -- Malta Cooking -- Malta Food habits -- Malta -- History -- 19th century Food supply -- Malta -- History -- 19th century Potatoes -- Malta -- History -- 19th century |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Midsea Books |
| Citation: | Cassar, C. (2019). From reluctant acceptance to staple cash crop : the potato in nineteenth-century Malta. In M. A. Falzon (Ed.), The examined life – writings in honour of Guido Lanfranco (pp. 89-95). Malta: Midsea Books Ltd. |
| Abstract: | In a recent report o the ever increasing problem of food shortages, Reuters correspondent Terry Wade said that, ‘as wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato - long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat - is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world’ (Wade 2008). The rediscovery of the tuber as a cheap source of food mentioned by the journalist has in fact taken place time and time again over several centuries. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/85890 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacEMATou |
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