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How the potato evolved: from poison, to suspicion, to empire

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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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