# Rebecca Earle
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rebecca earle (born 1964) is a historian, specialising in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.
== Biography ==
Earle completed her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College in 1986.
The Politics of the Potato
From the moment it landed on European shores in the early 16th century, the potato has been used as a political instrument. From the Age of Enlightenment to European empire and colonialism to the World Wars and beyond, the potato has arguably played every role between savior and enemy in its relati…
Potatoes with Poppy O'Toole
In this episode, social media chef and queen of potatoes, Poppy O'Toole, explores the world of her favourite ingredient, the Potato.
Last year, Poppy appeared on Mastermind, choosing the history of the potato as her specialist subject. Let’s just say… it didn’t quite go to plan. So now, she’s join…
Who invented the potato? And why should we care?
"How did Sir Walter Raleigh invent the potato?” In this 10-Minute Talk, Rebecca Earle FBA takes up Philomena Cunk’s question to explore the global history of the potato and explain why we should care.
Speaker: Professor Rebecca Earle FBA
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from F…
Potatoes in Shakespeare's England
When Falstaff cries, "Let the sky rain potatoes" in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's audience heard more than a vegetable—they heard novelty, superstition, and even scandal. In Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the potato was still a strange newcomer from the Americas, rumored to be an aph…
Finding my tribe
In party conference season, we look at what bonds party members and what it means to create a new network with its own shared beliefs and rituals. What light can the big thinkers from the worlds of anthropology and sociology shed? From political tribes to criminal gangs, from social media to social…
The Columbian Exchange
Misha Glenny and guests discuss the exchange of cultures and biology across the Atlantic and Pacific after 1492. That was when Columbus reached the Bahamas, a time when Europe had no potatoes, tomatoes, sunflowers or, arguably, syphilis in its most virulent form; the Americas had no cattle, bananas…
The Columbian Exchange
Misha Glenny and guests discuss the exchange of cultures and biology across the Atlantic and Pacific after 1492. That was when Columbus reached the Bahamas, a time when Europe had no potatoes, tomatoes, sunflowers or, arguably, syphilis in its most virulent form; the Americas had no cattle, bananas…
The Tomato in England
There have been all sorts of explanations for why tomatoes took so long to be accepted in England, most of them calling on superstition and stupidity. The truth is more down to earth.
Rebecca Earle on potato history, Latin America, and Ireland
Rebecca Earle on potato history, Latin America, and Ireland
You can read about her work here:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/earle/
https://rebeccaearle.co.uk/
Bumper Books Recap
In which we chat about all the books we've been reading recently.
Books Mentioned:
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
Strange Houses by Uketsu
Graveyard Shift by ML Rio
Potato by Rebecca Earle
White Spaces by Elvin James M…
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