Cailey Hall
Cailey Hall is a PhD student in English at UCLA, where she is working on a dissertation about British Romanticism and the alimentary. She previously co-edited The Nassau Weekly, wrote for The Daily Princetonian and worked as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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The potato not only represented a hope for a different kind of food future in 1664 for England, but it also made so many more individual futures possible, providing food where there otherwise would have been none.