Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Musgrave Jennifer

  • The tuber that changed the world: a brief history of the potato

    Jennifer MusgraveBloomington, Indiana, United States When Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, he did not know that potatoes even existed. But the Columbian voyages to the Americas would initiate a domino effect allowing this unassuming but life-sustaining tuber to spread from its South American origins to the Old World and by its introduction change the…