The Food Chronology By James Trager

In the wild, there are food chains. In human society, there are social structures. Within that structure, the U.S.A stands as the largest predator, the unbeatable force, much like a lion would be in the jungle. However, does this superiority give us the right to mess with members in the lower half? This issue is discussed in a short story by T.C Boyle, called Top of the Food Chain.

Potatoes became a staple in the diet of many as they were discovered around the world. They are still an important part of the diet of many today. ("International year of," 2008)

Standage, Tom. An Edible History of Humanity. (Ed) New York: Walker and Company, 2010, Print.

Before 1500, potatoes were not become outside of South America. By the 1840s, Ireland was so subject to the potato that the proximate reason for the Incomparable Starvation was a potato malady. Potatoes in the long run turned into an imperative staple of the eating regimen in quite a bit of Europe. Numerous European rulers, including Frederick the Incomparable of Prussia and Catherine the Incomparable of Russia, supported the development of the potato. Maize and cassava, acquainted with the Portuguese from South America in the sixteenth century, have supplanted sorghum and millet as Africa's most essential sustenance crops. sixteenth century Spanish colonizers acquainted new staple yields with Asia from the Americas, including maize and sweet potatoes, and along these lines added to populace development in Asia. Tomatoes, which came to Europe from the New World by means of Spain, were at first prized in Italy basically for their decorative esteem . From the nineteenth century tomato sauces wound up run of the mill of Neapolitan food and, eventually, Italian cooking when all is said in done. Espresso from Africa and the Center East and sugarcane from the Spanish West Independents turned into the fundamental fare product harvests of broad Latin American manors. Acquainted with India by the Portuguese, bean stew and potatoes from South America have turned into a basic piece of Indian

An Edible History of Humanity is a book written by Tom Standage. It was first published on in 2009 by Walker & Co in the English language. The book is divided into six parts covering twelve chapters. It talks about the civilization of man from Old Stone Age during hunting and gathering all the way to present-day day. In this book, Standage describes how the development of food production has contributed to the civilization of humans (Standage, 113). He also outlines the role of food in the existence of humankind. The main theme in this text surrounds’ the history of man painting food as the tool in industrial evolution, civilization and how it impacts wars, as well as ecological competition. Standage concludes that food is the key cause of

People’s ability to assess certain courses of action brings about two distinct paths: it either hinders the person’s ability to gauge their surroundings or it enables them to see and act based on a completely new perspective. It is our seemingly competent nature, as generalists, that has led to the rise of the phenomenon known as the “national eating disorder.” Skewing food culture and trend patterns, we have come to trust in our natural aptitude for survival as a way to pave our way through sustaining nourishment while coming into terms with the opportunity costs that accompany all of our decisions. There is something about food that grabs people; it is the individual tastes and textures, the unique stories of each and every ingredient that is used to make food, and the smell of spices that brings familiarity that

The doctors stated that the potato was inside of the woman's vagina for at least two weeks. She went to the doctor when she started to experience pain. They found that the potato had started to germinate and grow roots. They could actually see the roots of the potato coming from the woman's orifice. The doctors could not believe it.

It is said that farming is "the worst mistake in the history of the human race."(2). In An Edible History of Humanity, chapter two, Tom Standage explained the reasoning behind this statement. The explanation is, farming took longer, created health issues and changed the structure of our bodies.

The potato also reminds him of his mother’s stories, and the different in cultures between America and Peru. “Are potatoes harvested at night in the moonlight? He was surprised how little he knew about something that came from his own country. As he thought about it, he believed harvest wasn’t even the correct term. Gathering? Digging? What do you call this harvest from under the earth?” (Pg 313, Ortega) The father is trying to remember how potatoes are harvested, and it surprised him that how little he actually knew about them. It shows that the lost of his old culture when he lives in Peru and he is a bite guilty and astonish that he doesn’t know this simply and base facts about his culture. “Boiled, baked, fried, or stewed: the ways of cooking potatoes were a long story in themselves. He remembered what his mother had told him as a child: at harvest time, the largest potatoes would be roasted for everybody, and, in the fire, they would open up just like flowers. The potatoes were probably the one of the lost varieties, the kind that turned into flowers in the flames.” (Pg 313, Ortega)The culture of Peru is reflected through the symbol potato. The father think about the time when he was a child and his mother told him stories about his culture and how different ways the potatoes were cooked in the past. So when the father cooks the potato it reminds him of the culture of peru and all the different ways that people there cooks

While numerous sources debate if growing potatoes on Mars using the methods Watney executed, these source miss the symbolic realism and meaning behind using potatoes in the movie. For example, Watney finds the potatoes in a box labeled strictly intended for research use, which ties to the emphasis on current potato research in space. Watney does not know if growing potatoes is a feasible way of survival, and therefore must use science and his background in botany to make the potatoes grow. Watney realistically designs and carriers out a scientific experiment in a process that actual scientist will explore the possibilities of growing potatoes on Mars. Furthermore, Chinese scientists willingly fund the research and development to help the United States send a space probe filled with food to Watney. This connection strikes as a realistic reference to when the first potatoes intended for space were developed. The Chinese developed the basis for the first space potatoes, and the United States further advanced the Chinese potatoes in order to send the potatoes into space. Similarly, the United States first started to develop the food space probe, and the Chinese further aided in development to successfully rescue Watney from Mars. Both of these instances provide a significant value of realism to the potatoes shown on

Sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control. These are the four topics of desire that Michael Pollan talks about within his memoirs in The Botany of Desire. All four desires are told through powerful euphemisms in relation to plants that we have come to know as domesticated. In regards to our modern relationship with plants, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato are perhaps some of our most treasured allies. This could not be truer than that relationship in which we have with the potato. That relationship has lasted for thousands of years, and its genetic makeup has been the conversation of many farmers around the world. The potatoes birthplace with the Incans proved to be a time of high biodiversity with thousands of varieties. However, through the act of monoculture with Europeans, and a need to feed a growing population, the potato has experienced a decrease in the amount of varieties that are cultivated.

1719 – Potatoes appeared in United States. They were brought by the Governor of Bermuda, Nathaniel Butler include cedar chest and other vegetables to Governor Francis Wyatt of Virginia at Jamestown. Later on, these tubers were cultivated around the country.

The potato could be served baked, boiled, roasted, fried or made into soups, pancakes, dumplings, souffles, pies and even bread! The potato adapted easily to the cool and damp climates of Ireland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scandinavia. And now approximately 3,000 different types of potatoes are grown in America today! In fact, the potato affected Ireland so much that the population expanded from 3.2 million in 1754 to 8.2 million less than a century later. Now China has become the largest sweet potato producer ever, the potato went national faster than Justin

Cooking is a vital, overlooked component necessary to accomplish every human’s basic fundamental needs to survive and reproduce. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, food is one of the factors that constructs the base of the pyramid’s physiological section (Myers 330). This section cannot be considered without its fundamental component, the act of cooking. Not only is this act executed in most human individuals’ everyday lifestyle, but has also increased their fitness in the course of time. In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Humans by Richard Wrangham, Wrangham similar idea convinces me. Wrangham declares that it was fire and cooking that led to new crucial physical traits developed in humans. Whether fire was created as a

The introduction of the sweet potato had effects on the Chinese environment. 2 The sweet potato was introduced to China from the Philippines by ships that were crossing the Atlantic, around the 1580s. The sweet potato likely came from the Central or South Americas. It was also monocropped by the Chinese. The sweet potato came to China in a very important time. At the time, China had a fourth of the world’s population. They needed to feed these people on a twelfth of the world’s farmable