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68. Antoine Parmentier & The History of the Potato

The Land of Desire: French History and Culture by Diana Stegall

Apr 29, 202149:12Society & Culture

April showers bring May flowers – unless they bring floods, famine, and fear. This month, I’m looking at the moment in French history when farmers turned their nose up at the foods of the New World – until they realized...

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