Latest / Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson
Fear Not the Potato. Fear the Person Who Fears the Potato.
I’ve been doing a series about foods that built civilizations. In this episode, we are talking about the potato.
It is difficult to imagine that thousands of years ago, people constructed large buildings, managed rivers, built monuments, and created art. We have glimpses of these civilizations through stories, archaeology, and the structures they left behind, but much of their history has been lost. Imagine, we don’t even know where Cleopatra or Alexander the Great are buried, yet we know their stories.
As European powers conquered Indigenous peoples, their languages, cultures, and oral…
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