[lbo-talk] Salt ... on your potatoes

[Max B. Sawicky]

Michael Perelman wrote:
> I was thinking about a different book:
> 
> The history and social influence of the potato.
> RN Salaman - 1949 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
> 
> He ran a hospital. Had a nervous breakdown. Asked his gardener (probably an Irishman) 
> to recommend a plan to study.  The gardener (probably sarcastically) recommended the 
> potato.
> 
> I read it in the 60s.  It made a deep impression on me.

It can't hold a candle to The Secret History of the Radish.