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Norway: The Potato Priest Who Fed Norway
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Why did Norwegian farmers believe that eating potatoes would give them leprosy — and who were the potato priests who spent fifty years smuggling tubers home from Copenhagen in their hats to prove them wrong? How did a Napoleonic blockade finally force an entire nation to accept a vegetable it had resisted for a century? And why did one historian argue that the potato mattered more to the Norwegian people than their own Constitution?
Join John and Patrick as they tell the story of Norway and the humble tuber — the scurvy, the hunger emergency, the lay preacher imprisoned fourteen times, and the Andean vegetable that kept a nation alive...
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