SC - InfoBeat Entertainment @ 12/03/97

[Christi Redeker]

Bear wrote:

>>I thought was fairly well established that Sir Walter >>Raleigh had a potato farm in Ireland in 1570 or so.
>>
>>phlip at morganco.net

>Apocryphally, Raleigh introduced the potato to England, >but I have seen no solid documentation of this.  I think it >more like the potato was introduced into continental >Europe from Spain and into England by Francis Drake and >his sea dogs.  Wherever it came from, the potato didn't >see serious cultivation until the mid-seventeenth century.  >It is possible that Raleigh grew sweet potatoes, as that >vegetable appears to have become more common in >England before 1600.

>Bear

Ack... You mean, Black Adder is incorrect..... Charlatan!

Murkial
(Sorry about the late post, out of work for two weeks sick and no email to speak of at home.)
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