SC - Period Potatoes
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Oct 29 05:54:53 PST 1997
Laurene wrote:
I had seen that comment before that "Potatoes aren't period" but I don't
see how this is possible. There were Irish people living during Medival
times, and potatoes in Ireland are a STAPLE food! In fact, I saw on TLC
once, where hundreds of thousands of Irish men women and children starved to
death at one point (sorry, it was a few months ago, and I dont' remember the
date cited) because of a blight brought in from England that destroyed ALL
the potato crops on the Island. It left the poor with nothing (as the show
stated it , "not very little to eat but NOTHING to eat") to eat for many
months, and the population was devastated. I'm far from an expert in
Medival cooking, but I do not see how potatoes could be anything but period!
Well, the truth is, the end of period was a long time ago, and the end of
the medieval period was even further back in time.
Potatoes were introduced into Ireland after period, but still a very long
time ago. There are whole books on the topic of the foodstuffs of Ireland,
and the diaspora and death from the great famine. I've only read digests
and abstracts of them, but it seems to be a consuming (ahem) topic.
Tibor
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