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How the potato evolved: from poison, to suspicion, to empire
Did you know that potatoes originally had to be eaten with soil, otherwise they were poisonous? Sheila Dillon talks to Charles C. Mann, author of '1493 - How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth'.
First broadcast on the Food Programme, 24 April 2017.
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