PHIL 2380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Russet Burbank Potato, French Fries, Columbian Exchange
14 Mar 2016
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Mobile: travelled from peru (andes regions) to ireland via colonial powers. Social stigma: potatoes were thought to cause leprosy and lead to immorality; they grow underground, which is suspicious; it is the food of a backward people (savage) Liberator: allowed irish to lessen dependency on english. Monoculture definition: a single crop cultivated to the exclusion of any other harvest. Over dependence on the potato as a monoculture (the lumper) resulted in the great potato famine (1845- 1848), resulting from potato disease and widespread crop failure. Globalization: ongoing process by which regional economics, societies, and cultures have become integrated through globe-spanning network of exchange. Columbian exchange: movement of species across the atlantic ocean, from new world to the old world (vise versa) and the resulting ecological transformations. When the spanish arrived in south america. Most potatoes grown today are for the frozen fry industry.
