Burt Wolf-- what we eat
Subtitle: Disc three : Native American influence
By: Acorn Associates, Ltd
Contributors: Acorn Associates, Ltd; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Chocolate; Chocolate processing; Potatoes; French fries; Potato industry; Corn; Economic aspects; Processing; Corn products; Food; History
Other titles: What we eat.; Native American influence
Description: Three episodes from a 13-part series that explores the changes in the way people ate when Christopher Columbus made his voyages and opened up the exchange of plants and animals between the Old World and the New.

Pt. VII follows the history of chocolate from its importance to the Mayan culture, its arrival in Spain and its development by the Europeans to what it is today. Pt. IX looks at how the potato fed an exploding populations that provided wokers for the Industrial Revolution, how it caused a population rxplosion in Ireland, killed a million Irish when the crop failed, and follows the immigration of a million Irish to America. Pt. X looks at the cultivation of corn; how the Native Americanns planted and fertilized their crops.
Notes: Videodisc release of the series released to KET public television November 2002.

Hosted by Burt Wolf.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: When money grew on trees: the story of chocolate; title: This spud's for you: how the potato changed the world; title: The seed of life : the story of corn.